Electric Airplane Sets New Ascent Record

The Extra 330LE aerobatics airplane, with a 260 kW electric motor from Siemens, set a new world record time to climb to a height of 3,000 m (4 min 10 sec) on set on November 25 That’s one minute and 10 second faster than the previous record held by Chip Yates since 2013…. …read more