Arlington electric aircraft maker logs order for 75 planes

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ARLINGTON — Eviation Aircraft, the Arlington company that has built a fully electric commuter airplane, got a hefty boost this week when one of the nation’s largest commuter airlines, Cape Air, signed a letter of intent to buy 75 of the Eviation Alice model.

The nine-passenger airplane, which produces no carbon emissions, has been undergoing ground taxi tests since December. It is expected to take a maiden flight this year.

Cape Air, based in Hyannis, Massachusetts, operates more than 400 regional flights a day to nearly 40 cities in the Northeast, Midwest, Montana and the Caribbean.

Deploying a fleet of all-electric planes “will significantly reduce carbon emissions,” cut maintenance and operational costs and give passengers “a smoother and quieter flight experience,” Cape Air said in a news release.

https://www.heraldnet.com/business/arlington-electric-aircraft-maker-logs-a-hefty-order/

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1. It's surprising. I went to the link and the photo of...

one of the electric planes shows it to be propeller driven, which makes sense when you think about it as a jet plane could not be electric and would make noise.

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2. Yesterday...

I had to go grocery shopping and on the way I have to cross a major RR artery. Usually it's coal and lumber or potash loads going by but yesterday there was a train of mixed loads, some of which was unfinished airplane fuselages, they used to go through quite often. When I saw them I realized that it's been a long time since i have seen those go by making me figure that orders were up again.

They are "in production" where they are partially assembled in Kansas (I think it is) and then transported by rail to Washington to be completed.