Johannes, Peter and Floris are thrilled. The pilots are carrying out the first test flights for the scaled E9X demonstrator. It's a world premiere — and if all goes to plan, their electric model plane could soon become a big passenger aircraft.
After a soft landing, the aircraft is still in one piece — and now the real adventure can begin: analysing the flight data in the Elysian Aircraft laboratory, which sits beside Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport.
Over the next two decades, the global number of air passengers could double. This is bad news for the global climate, so the young Dutch start-up Elysian is working on a solution.
