Just over 100 years after the first flight between the South Island and North Island of New Zealand, aviation history has been written once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gary Freedman became the first person to make the short flight in an electric plane across the Cook Strait, to highlight the possibilities for green flights ahead of the climate summit in Glasgow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The flight took place from Blenheim to the capital Wellington and went better than expected, according to the pilot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe still had 40 percent left in the battery. We could almost have flown back again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The aircraft, a Pipistrel Alpha Electro model, weighs less than 400 kilograms. The 78-kilometer flight took place at an altitude of 305 meters at 130 kilometers per hour, and took about 40 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Source:TT-AP<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Drygt 100 \u00e5r efter den f\u00f6rsta flygningen mellan Syd\u00f6n och Nord\u00f6n i Nya Zeeland har flyghistoria \u00e5terigen skrivits. Gary Freedman blev den f\u00f6rsta personen att g\u00f6ra den korta flygningen i ett elflygplan \u00f6ver Cooksundet, f\u00f6r att belysa m\u00f6jligheterna till gr\u00f6na flygningar inf\u00f6r klimatm\u00f6tet i Glasgow. Flygningen skedde fr\u00e5n Blenheim till huvudstaden Wellington och gick b\u00e4ttre […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3572,85,3573,3574],"class_list":["post-238671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-report","tag-elflygplan","tag-flyg","tag-glasgow","tag-sydon"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n