Electra conducted successful first flight of solar-battery hybrid electric aircraft

Electra.aero has achieved an important milestone, the successful maiden flight of a solar-battery hybrid electric research aircraft. The 90-foot wingspan unmanned test aircraft nicknamed ‘Dawn One was one of the first manufactured aircraft at Electra’s Virginia facility.  The aircraft is a part of the Stratospheric Airborne Climate Observing System (SACOS) program. Professor James G. Anderson, Harvard University said: “SACOS is designed to innovatively address a broad range of scientific missions and serve as a climate observing system that will herald a new era in the quantitative dissection of the physics, chemistry, and biology controlling critical climate systems. The high-spatial resolution