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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Dan Hall

'Future of flight could just be battery powered - I went on one-hour trip over London'

Electric cars, fine. I’m all for going as green as possible transport-wise. Battery powered buses, I’ll hop on. Electric cruise liners, all aboard.

Until I was told my next reporting assignment would be a flight in the world’s first legal electric plane – then I was all for going a deathly white.

WATT?! I’m terrified of flying at the best of times so the thought of being thousands of feet from terra firma in a light aircraft with the reassuring rumble of a fossil fuel engine replaced by the Silence of the Amps, didn’t charge me with confidence.

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