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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. Beta also counts United Therapeutics, UPS, and the U.S. Air Force as customers for a range of use cases, including medical, logistics, and military, and recently received orders for passenger-carrying aircraft from Blade and Helijet. 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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