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Hans von der Brelie

E9X: The battery-powered plane with 90 passengers on board and a range of 1,000 kilometres

Johannes, Peter and Floris are thrilled. The pilots are carrying out the first test flights for the scaled E9X demonstrator. It’s a world premiere — and if all goes to plan, their electric model plane could soon become a big passenger aircraft.

After a soft landing, the aircraft is still in one piece — and now the real adventure can begin: analysing the flight data in the Elysian Aircraft laboratory, which sits beside Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport.

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