Electra is building an aircraft that can take off and land using an airfield that's one-tenth the size of a standard runway.

A touch and go landing, where a plane touches the runway, then quickly takes off again, may seem strange, but it's actually a fairly normal maneuver.

ALIA, an electric-powered plane, took off on the first ever North American passenger flight Tuesday morning. In 49 minutes, the plane traveled from East Hampton to JFK.

A touch and go landing, where a plane touches the runway, then quickly takes off again, may seem strange, but it's actually a fairly normal maneuver.