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E-Fan, all electric aircraft, prepares for historic channel crossing

Bordeaux, France - Next Friday, 10 July. The first test flights on Thursday 9

Airbus Group’s all-electric E-Fan technology demonstrator aircraft is being readied for its Channel crossing this Friday, 10 July. The aircraft will soon be on its way from France's Aquitaine region to the starting point of its Channel crossing in Lydd, England. Transported on a truck and shipped by a ferry from the French to the English side of the Channel, the E-Fan will perform first test flights o...

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Rome, Italy, 07/06/2015 10:12
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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