Airbus Group SE Friday completed its first-ever flight of an electric plane across the English Channel as the European plane maker seeks to spark interest in less polluting aircraft. Robert Wall ...

CALAIS, France (AP) — Airbus flew its electric plane across the English Channel for the first time Friday — hours after an independent French pilot made a similar voyage, beating the aeronautics giant ...

According to The Independent, Airbus test pilot Didier Esteyne flew the experimental electric aircraft from Lydd airfield in Kent (on the south coast of the United Kingdom) to Calais in France. The 36 ...

The aviation world hasn’t witnessed this type of intrigue in 106 years — at least as far as an English Channel crossing is concerned. Seeking to replicate Louis Blériot’s famous overwater flight in ...

CALAIS, France — With zero fanfare, an independent French pilot beat aeronautics giant Airbus by about 12 hours Friday in a race to fly the first electric plane across the English Channel, a ...

Airbus Group's E-Fan electric demonstrator successfully crossed the English Channel, completing a 38-minute flight in a historic re-enactment. The achievement is controversial, as French pilot Hugues ...

CALAIS, France — Airbus flew its electric plane across the English Channel for the first time Friday — hours after an independent French pilot made a similar voyage, beating the aeronautics giant in ...

CALAIS, France --With zero fanfare, an independent French pilot beat aeronautics giant Airbus by about 12 hours Friday in the race to fly the first electric plane across the English Channel -- a ...

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Pilot Didier Esteyne prepares to land the E-Fan electrically powered aeroplane at Calais Airport in France following his successful crossing of The Channel from Lydd Airport in Kent.. Picture date: ...

Airbus has hailed a new chapter in aviation history by claiming the first electric flight across the Channel, brushing off a similar feat by another French pilot a day earlier. Nearly 106 years after ...

PARIS (Reuters) - An attempt by Airbus to make history by crossing the English Channel in an electric plane ended in wounded pride on Friday after a French pilot claimed to have beaten it by hours. In ...