In 2015, somewhere in an airless office tasked with keeping track of such things, a dot was placed on a spreadsheet graph. It represents year one of the next big thing in aviation: electric airplanes. The graph will march forward from there, rising gently into the future. Or so it is hoped.
Never mind that you can’t readily buy an electric airplane right now and you’ll have a time even finding one to fly, as I did last summer. It took a trip to Slovenia to experience the tingle of raw voltage coursing into a brushless DC motor at the touch of button.