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Liam Buckler

World's first all-electric passenger airplane takes to the sky and flies for 8 minutes

The world's first all-electric passenger airplane has taken to the sky for its first ever eight-minute flight.

The zero-emission aircraft successfully launched from Washington's Grant County International Airport on Tuesday morning.

Eviation Aircraft, the Israeli-founded company behind the plane, said the nine-passenger aircraft traveled at an altitude of 3,500 feet.

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