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BETA’s eVTOL Receives First Air Force Airworthiness Approval for Human Flight in Electric Aircraft

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BETA’s eVTOL Receives First Air Force Airworthiness Approval for Human Flight in Electric Aircraft
BETA Technology's ALIA simulator in BETA's Washington, D.C. facility is a fully immersive eVTOL flight simulator and training facility. The simulator allows Air Force pilots and engineers to experience the future of electric vertical flight by rehearsing and testing the ALIA aircraft in a variety of potential mission sets and scenarios. (U.S. Air Force courtesy photo)

After a year of testing, BETA Technologies' electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, ALIA, has received the first airworthiness approval for manned flight in an electric aircraft from the Air Force, the Air Force announced on May 5. BETA and the Air Force will sign a contract in June that allows the Air Force access to ALIA as well as their eVTOL simulators in Washington, D.C. and Springfield, Ohio. The airworthiness approval allows ALIA to fly in the Air…

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