On The Cover: That's the newly certified Pipistrel Velis Electro trainer. Last year, the Slovenian aircraft manufacturer promised it would deliver the first certified electric airplane and it succeeded. A standard category airplane certified to CS-LSA standards at the 1320-pound limit, it's a day VFR-only two-seater aimed square at the training market. Editor-at-large Paul Bertorelli put it through the wringer for the flight trial report that begins on page 12.
There’s so much buzz around the emergence of electric airplanes that it’s easy to forget what animates most of the enterprise is press releases. New airplane announcements fly fast and furious; the airplanes themselves, not so much. Cutting through this background noise is the innovative Slovenian company, Pipistrel. Last year, as it promised it would, […]
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