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Mon, Sep 7, 2026, 08:10:57 MT

FLYING · GA

PIPISTREL VELIS ELECTRO MAY HERALD NEW ERA OF FLIGHT TRAINING...

Around 2007, when I was heavily into flying radio-controlled aerobatic model airplanes, I outfitted a roughly 20-percent-scale Zlin Z-526 Akrobat model with an electric motor and six-cell lithium-polymer battery pack.

SCOTT: This is the kind of thing that shows up at the FBO desk two weeks later. Screenshot it, then go look at your own field’s version of the same problem.

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