PLUG and P L A Y Electric aircraft are in our future WITH 40-YEAR-OLD AIRFRAMES and innovation coming only to the cockpit, it seems like general aviation hasn't seen substantial change in decades. Driven primarily by creative engineering in Europe, but now catching up in the United States, electric propulsion is at the threshold, and when it arrives, the shape of aviation as we know it will change. B Y I A N J. T W O M B LY P H OT O G R A P H Y B Y D O U G L A S G R I T Z www.aopa.org/pilot AOPA PILOT | 59http://www.aopa.org/pilot