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AFWERX Agility Prime Program, BETA Technologies Make History With First Airman Flight of Electric Aircraft
March 16, 2022
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, March 16 -- The U.S. Air Force issued the following news:

By Katie Milligan

AFWERX

Hank Griffiths and Maj. Jonathan Appleby, both Air Force pilots, flew BETA Technologies' electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, ALIA, as the first-ever Airmen to fly an electric aircraft with a military airworthiness, March 9.

This milestone, which took place at BETA's Plattsburgh, New York, hangar and testing facili . . .

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