First Flight ✅

In addition to making it autonomous, I’d recommend deleting all control surfaces in favor of gimbaling the motors and replace the horizontal stabilizer with a small wing (like the Piaggio). This will significantly improve range. The battery also needs to double as structure for the wing (if you’re not doing it already). You can use the battery cells like honeycomb to transfer shear between bonded carbon fiber face sheets.

For a closer look at X1 and @heartaerospace, check out our @ycombinator video from earlier this week!

Congratulations! Proud of my bro, Alec (Flight Systems), that helped pull this off. A lot of personal sacrifices made across employees to help achieve this milestone

Congrats team. First flights are incredible. Very few people understand how hard it is to accomplish what you just did. Keep grinding!

Wow! That is a great achievement. Thank you all for making this happen IRL. ⚡️✈️

Epic milestone. Congrats all around!!

Congrats Anders and the whole team! Tough to make something that big fly on batteries!! Huge accomplishment

look! its the electric jet!

Flying on BATTERIES?!? 🙄😂 What a stupid idea!

1) Is there significantly less noise inside ? 2) How expensive will be one person ticket ?

This is the world’s largest battery-electric aircraft ever flown. It proves electric flight at commercial-airliner scale by using just around $5 of electricity and shows a path to slashing regional operating costs versus volatile jet fuel.

@grok what's so special about it

It's the largest battery-electric aircraft ever flown: 106-ft wingspan, >25,000 lb takeoff weight. Piloted 27-min flight used ~$5 of electricity and >1 MW power. Full-scale demonstrator for the ES-30 hybrid regional (30 seats, 2031 target), proving commercial-scale electric flight with potential 40%+ lower operating costs.

@geladaris_georg @heartaerospace How much would similar fuel cost be in traditional fuel used in aircrafts @grok

A similar-sized conventional turboprop would burn about 10-20 gallons of Jet A on the same short low-altitude 27-min taxi/takeoff/climb/maneuver/land profile. At the $3.50/gal rate Heart cited that week, fuel cost would be roughly $35-70—several times the $5 electricity bill. Current FBO retail prices are higher still.

@mehuljindal18 @geladaris_georg @heartaerospace Sorry Grok, but 10-20 GPH is a very low estimate for this type of aircraft. This is not a Cirrus. This is a small regional aircraft. I’m guessing equivalent would be 50 GPH.

The 10-20 figure was total gallons for the full 27-min low-altitude profile, not a cruise GPH rate. For a comparable ~25-30k lb regional turboprop (e.g. Saab 340 class at ~140 GPH cruise), short taxi/takeoff/climb/maneuver/land burns more aggressively. Real block data for ~30-min sectors put total fuel nearer 60-90+ gallons. That still multiplies the $5 electricity cost several times over at $3.50/gal.

How much quieter is it? Inside and outside

Finally there is at least one good looking electric aircraft.

Can you provide any technical data? Like energy consumption during flight or battery capacity?

I have questions.

The music high pitch droning in the video is very annoying I recommend you change it out.

Although I love the idea of this I don’t think it’s practical and potentially more harmful to our environment. The environmental cost is high to put these planes into production, the charging infrastructure, storing planes at airports etc only for 200km range. It’s not feasible. We need advancements in batteries + a more efficient engine for thrust. Plus if you make them hybrid, you’re wasting even more resources. It’s not the same as an electric or hybrid car. They’re vastly different.

Great. But I really wanted to hear the sound of tbe frsr electric aircraft. That background music was unnecessary

If Electric cars can be done. Why can't electric planes be done

greatest moment 💪

Freaking amazing 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾. Fully electric for the win. $5 of electricity used. Awesome 🤩🤩🤩

Awesome!👏 🧡💜

Can you get in touch with me please ? @elonmusk

Epic milestone for commercial aviation! Congrats to the incredible @heartaerospace team. The future of aviation is here.

@grok what's the range/ flight time? What's the tradeoff with the short propellers?

This is really cool

Great stuff! Keep it up 🫡

Pilots got a parachute on, he's taking no chances lol

congratulations!

That's pretty quiet.

When is it due? It appears about 5 months pregnant. Seriously, amazing work. I hope we can go back to civil airports feeding larger ones to also cut gas/parking/etc. Huge potential there if you can land short. Maybe a runway with dots like Oshkosh to triple capacity.

Yoooo this is really cool! Congrats!

Amazing

Incredible 🤩🤩