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My hair-raising flight in the world’s first electric aircraft

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Pipistrel Velis Electro is the first fully electric aircraft to be certified for flight in the UK .

The Federal Aviation Authority in the USA has just given it the nod too.

A flight training company called Synergy , along with sustainability solutions provider 4AIR , have established Britain ’s first zero -emissions flight training platform.

The Velis Electro has noise levels of only 60 decibels, considerably easier on the ears than Cessnas .

At its maximum height of around 1,000ft, we looked down on mansions with large swimming pools.

Electric light aircraft could still have a big impact in another way: if tens of thousands of flight training hours are conducted in electric planes, this will add up to millions of litres of kerosene removed from the atmosphere.