Story ID: 013AHeloNewsAIN1211
French Firm Makes Electric Helo Flight
By: Thierry Dubois
Caption: Solution F, a company based near Aix-en-Provence, France, claims to have made the first flight of a manned
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Solution F, a company based near Aix-en-Provence, France, claims to have made the first flight of a manned, electrically powered helicopter with on-board batteries. It took off on August 12, maintaining a hover for two minutes and 10 seconds. The project leader was engineer and helicopter pilot Pascal Chrétien.