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As the article itself says, electric will be fine for shorter flights, up to 200-250 miles, and up to 30 passengers. Cheaper than fueled. So the "hub-and-spoke
by tuatoru 4y ago
As the article itself says, electric will be fine for shorter flights, up to 200-250 miles, and up to 30 passengers. Cheaper than fueled.
So the "hub-and-spoke" model of airports may be overlaid with a "dense mesh" of airfields.
As I understand it, the bottleneck is the FAA. They are swamped with applications for type approvals. So much so that at least one company opted to develop a hydroplane instead of a land-based electric plane.