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 …
