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Electric aircraft founder Kyle Clark threw out the Silicon Valley playbook
On a cool morning last November, 800 people gathered before sunrise in a South Burlington hangar to witness the maiden flight of Beta Technologies’ first
On a cool morning last November, 800 people gathered before sunrise in a South Burlington hangar to witness the maiden flight of Beta Technologies’ first electric aircraft to be built on its new scaled production line. Clark is also a pilot and a flight instructor who has built and flown “at least 20 airplanes.” His LinkedIn displays some of his earliest jobs, like being a bouncer at a Boston bar who “wrestled drunks up stairs after Red Sox games.” We last spoke on the day Clark presented Air New Zealand with its first CX300, and despite the occasion, he dressed in a well-worn black hoodie, jeans, and a camo baseball cap with BETA written in bright orange letters.
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