French pilot crosses Channel in electric plane – video

French pilot Didier Esteyne flies a battery-powered two-seat Airbus E-Fan from Lydd, Kent, across the Channel to Calais in France on Friday. The flight took around 40 minutes. Airbus said it was the first flight in an electric plane across the Channel, a milestone in the attempt to make electric flights a viable form of travel. It said an earlier Channel crossing by Hugues Duval was invalid as his plane was launched from another aircraft Continue reading...