Its just a matter of time before two thirds of all aviation is via electric craft. Only International flights will continue to be those polluting Jets that burn fossil fuels and make nasty pollution.

That’s a handsome looking plane, and a serious looking power plant.

VincentWolf: Nah,international flights will use H2 powered fuel cells,with H2O only byproduct https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/zeroavia-zero-emission-hydrogen-planes-spc-intl/index.html

Electric aircraft should eventually be able to beat the 500 mph-plus numbers for combustion-driven planes.

I wonder how Harbor Air is doing with their plan to convert some of their turboprop float planes into pure electric planes ? I wonder if Covid pandemic stalled the project ?

That's not nearly as pretty or practical as the lovely Spitfire body that R.J. Mitchell wrapped around the Rolls Merlin engine for WWII. I'm guessing that the batteries sit squarely over the wings (or even into them?) while the pilot offsets the weight of the engine/ctrlr. Very strange design, but CGs are important.

Lucas electric I hope, not

Electric vehicles still have to be charged, and fossil fuels pollute, solar panels and batteries pollute in manufacturing and disposal, and giant wind turbine blades aren't recyclable and end up in landfills. Hydro and nuclear are the cleanest and most efficient. If all nuclear used thorium, it would be as clean as hydro.

@Lamar Havard - "...nuclear are the cleanest..." Seriously? Fukushima doesn't look to clean to me. Neither does Chernobyl. Or many other examples.

Tristan P. - Barring accidents, and the advances in waste storage, nuclear is cleaner than natural gas. And if thorium were implemented, the waste from traditional nuclear plants could be used in them until the material was rendered inert...no storage required.