dialamah
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Harbour Air in Vancouver makes history with first electric commercial flight.
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It was impressive, but I don’t think it was a commercial flight. It was a sea plane.
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The e-plane – a 62-year-old, six-passenger DHC-2 de Havilland Beaver seaplane retrofitted with a 750hp electric motor – was piloted by Greg McDougall, founder and chief executive of Harbour Air. “For me that flight was just like flying a Beaver, but it was a Beaver on electric steroids. I actually had to back off on the power,” he said.
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Good point. A 6 seat aircraft isn’t much of a commercial flight. It’s still impressive, but calling it a commercial flight is misleading.
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