Eviation’s Alice flew today, a long-awaited event that might mark a new direction for regional aviation. Alice has undergone extensive redesign and a restructuring of its business management team in the last year, but the new airplane finally took to the air. It’s taken long enough that even a late-show host took pot-shots at it in singularly lame fashion. Corden and his writers can do better. Despite the jibes, and following a somewhat traumatic development period, during which an early prototype was heavily damaged by fire in a ground charging accident. Eviation moved ahead. The firm moved operations from Israel to Arlington, Washington, within 15 miles of Everett-based motor maker MagniX. There, the new design underwent construction, followed by motor runups and taxi tests. After lengthy motor runs, Eviation moved operations to Moses Lake, Washington, where it began high-speed taxi texts. Flying magazine reports on its first test flight. “After months of ground testing and anticipation, Eviation’s sleek, electric airplane …
