At 07:10 on 27 September 2022, a sleek, white airframe with a T-tail and two magni650 electric propulsion units mounted on the aft fuselage lifted off from Grant County International Airport in Moses Lake, Washington, and flew for eight minutes at 3,500 feet. It was the maiden flight of Eviation’s Alice, the first all-new, all-electric aircraft designed from the ground up for commercial commuter service. Unlike the many eVTOL projects vying for headlines, Alice is a conventional fixed-wing aeroplane, intended to carry nine passengers and two crew on regional hops of 150 to 250 miles with zero emissions and a noise footprint so low it can operate from airports with strict curfews. The aircraft is powered by magniX electric propulsion units, and its battery-integrated structure represents a fundamental rethink of airframe architecture. On that crisp September morning, Eviation President Gregory Davis declared that humanity had “electrified the skies.” While certification remains years away, the Alice flight proved that the future of sustainable aviation is not limited to rotorcraft and rockets; it includes the quiet hum of electric propellers on runways that have served communities for a century.