Meet the Electra Aero EL9, an aircraft that might just revolutionise point-to-point travel
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‘The problem with normal fixed-wing aircraft is that they need a long runway to get into the air. And it’s very hard to place that runway anywhere near where people want to go,’ says Diana Siegel, vice president of commercial programmes at Electra. That’s a Virginia-based company, established in 2019, that reckons it has a solution: it has revisited a technology first proposed in the 1950s to create an aircraft with what it calls ‘Ultra Short’ capabilities, which means it can take off or land wi
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