# The Great Ongoing Aviation Thread (general and other) (Part 1)

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**Created:** [October 23, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-aviation-thread-general-and-other-part-1/600499 "2011-10-23T02:17:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 4, 2022, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-aviation-thread-general-and-other-part-1/600499/2999 "2022-10-04T01:41:32Z")

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> [@Whack-a-Mole](#):
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> In more electric airplane news:
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> [An all-electric passenger plane completed its first test flight - The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/28/23377053/all-electric-passenger-plane-prototype-first-flight-washington)
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> Still a long way from reality but a complaint in this thread is most these are paper airplanes. This one flew…if only for a few minutes. Supposedly will have a 150-250 mile range.

Alice now has its own thread:

> [@Alice, the first all-electric passenger airplane, takes flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alice-the-first-all-electric-passenger-airplane-takes-flight/972396):
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> this is cool … so is everything going to be electric based with n 10 years or so ?

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