| Summary: | An electric aircraft is an aircraft that runs on electric motors rather than internal combustion engines, with electricity coming from fuel cells, solar cells, ultracapacitors, power beaming, and/or batteries. Currently flying electric aircraft are mostly experimental demonstrators, including manned and unmanned aerial vehicles. Electrically powered model aircraft have been flown since the 1970s, with one report in 1957. In 1883 Gaston Tissandier was the first to use electric motors in airship propulsion. The motor following year, Charles Renard and Arthur Krebs flew La France with a more powerful ground or the ionosphere Nikolai Tesla envisaged using electrically powered aircraft, powered by beams from the with a challenged claim from 1909 Electric motors have been used for model fixed-wing aircraft since at least 1957, In 1964 William C Brown demonstrates on CBS News with Walter Cronkite a model helicopter that receives all of the power needed for flight from a microwave beam. In 2007 the non - profit CAFE Foundation held the first Electric Aircraft Symposium in San Francisco.
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