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World’s first crewed solid-state flight electrifies aviation's future

On June 5, test pilot Miguel Iturmendi lifted off from Zephyrhills Municipal Airport in Florida at the controls of the Helios Horizon – the first crewed, fixed-wing aircraft ever to fly on solid-state ...
Robb Report

This Electric Aircraft Is the First to Take Flight Using Solid-State Batteries

Helios Horizon just made aviation history. The Florida nonprofit completed what it says is the first piloted flight of an electric aircraft powered by solid-state batteries on Friday. Founder and ...
Aviation Week

Helios Horizon Makes First Piloted Flight On Solid-State Batteries

Helios Horizon is a Pipistrel Taurus motorglider modified to demonstrate stratospheric electric flight. Credit: James Darcy/Helios Horizon The Helios Horizon stratospheric electric aircraft has flown ...
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Semi-solid-state EV batteries just started powering light trucks and flying cars — a hybrid cell squeezing out 350 watt-hours per kilogram without bursting into flame

Somewhere between the lithium-ion batteries that power today’s electric cars and the fully solid-state cells that laboratories keep promising for “a few years from now,” a middle child has quietly ...