Electric aircraft founder Kyle Clark threw out the Silicon Valley playbook

TechCrunch

Center

Factuality

Ownership

Electric aircraft founder Kyle Clark threw out the Silicon Valley playbook

On a cool morning last November, 800 people gathered before sunrise in a South Burlington hangar to witness the maiden flight of Beta Technologies’ first

Laminute.info

Factuality

Ownership

On a cool morning last November, 800 people gathered before sunrise in a hangar in Burlington to the south to witness the first flight of Beta Technologies' first electric aircraft to be built on its new production line on a scale. Kyle Clark, founder and enigmatic CEO of Beta, flew the Alia CX300 – one of the two aircraft models of the startup – on a flight that lasted more than an hour. As he climbed into a clear sky in a "perfectly calm elect…