One California-based plane maker just showed it has a big heart—literally. Today, Heart Aerospace unveiled a 36-seat hybrid-electric regional airliner designed to fly passengers to and from community airports with fewer emissions. The new ES-36 builds upon the ES-30 model that Heart debuted in 2022 and the X1 demonstrator it flew earlier this year, but offers six more seats and 1,415 pounds of payload capacity. Even with that increase, the aircraft retains the same maximum takeoff weight and battery capacity as the previous design. One California-based plane maker just showed it has a big heart—literally. Today, Heart Aerospace unveiled a 36-seat hybrid-electric regional airliner designed to fly passengers to and from community airports with fewer emissions. The new ES-36 builds upon the ES-30 model that Heart debuted in 2022 and the X1 demonstrator it flew earlier this year, but offers six more seats and 1,415 pounds of payload capacity. Even..
