Earlier this month the Federal Aviation Administration approved the first

training program in the country for electric aviation. The program is just one part of a

small but burgeoning effort to develop greener air travel.

Our aviation correspondent Miles O'Brien has that report.

It was game day for Nate Moyer.

Seats and books. A former Air Force test pilot, he was cool as a cucumber facing

uncharted airspace ahead. His goal fly a new kind of battery-powered aircraft through a tricky transition.

Lea chase area is clear, pattern is all yours.

It lifted off like a helicopter, but then he stopped the vertical rotors, turning

the craft into an airplane. It's called an electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, or E-V-Tol. It was a pivotal moment for a

company that hopes to lead the transition away from fossil-fueled flight.

I felt like my purpose was to was to fly.

Engineer and avid aviator Kyle Clark is the founder and CEO of Beta Technologies based in Burlington, Vermont.

Somewhere around 30 years old, I had this realization like,

damn, I do genuinely care not only about my own kids, but the future of the world.

And that's when I realized that the electric aviation had an outsized importance.

Right now, aviation accounts for aviation had an outsized importance.

Right now, aviation accounts for about 3% of greenhouse gas emissions globally.

But as airline travel increases and other transportation sectors get greener, that piece of the climate

emergency pie is growing fast.

Is aviation responding quickly enough to this challenge?

In my view aviation absolutely isn't responding quick enough?

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