On board the 1st electric plane

The future of flight is electric, at least for one company in Vermont that's working to perfect a battery powered plane. Yeah, the beta aircraft is in the result or is the result of two decades of work in one man's revolutionary vision. Today he got a chance to show it off on Good Morning America. I was telling people for 20 years that this could change the way we fly. It's going to change everything. Kyle Clark started beta aircraft in college. He's turned it into a family business that now produces two types of planes, one that takes off on a traditional runway, another that lifts off and lands vertically like a helicopter. And it takes just 50 minutes to charge, costing about $13, allowing the planes to make an hour trip at a cost of 40 times less than a gas powered aircraft. The goal is to provide faster and cheaper medical flights and cheaper deliveries. And for carriers like UPS and Amazon, where they fly a lot and they want to bring packages to everybody next day across the entire country, if they can do that less expensive, their level of service goes up. Santa's gonna have a trade in this morning, right? Just last week, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy took a test flight in a beta plane. Beta is one of several companies working to develop electric planes, hoping for FAA certification in the coming year.