Three companies with divergent backgrounds launched three new electric aircraft in the last few months.<\/p>\n
As noted in the blurb for its historic YouTube video for its first electric flight 46 years ago, \u201cHB Flugtechnik is the pioneer in electric flight<\/a>. The world\u2019s first electric powered flight took place on October 21st, 1973 in Austria. 50 years later this company is still in business and doing better than ever. Given, that we talk about the aviation business, this is an outstanding and remarkable achievement. Today, HB Flugtechnik located at the now newly refurbished airfield Hofkirchen LOLH is not only the major MRO (Maintenance, Repair Organization or Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul) for aircraft in Austria, it is still working on the new frontier of electric flight.\u201d<\/p>\n