Now that it’s winding down, we can say it definitively: 2019 had some blockbuster stories, the top ten of which we’ve recognized here. As is always the case in aviation, where nothing except the planes themselves go very fast, many of the stories are high, or low, points in long-running tales while others are encapsulations of movements that have been hinted at before and that arrived fully formed in the past year. All of them, it’s safe to say, have roots in the past along and will surely continue to affect GA, some of them for years or decades to come.
9. Electric Nothingness
There were so many announcements about electric planes standing history on its ear with the very first flight of something. The truth is, the announcements got few pilots excited because the truth is clear to us: Electric planes are a work in progress still, and even more, their ultimate adoption, if it happens at all, is dependent on breakthroughs in storage capacity.