‘Momentous’: Harbour Air celebrates first all-electric test flight into Victoria

Need to see the payload and range data for this plane to determine if it is credible or just green virtue signalling,

That battery must be very heavy, limiting payload and the range is questionable at best

Also need to consider turn around times on station. A a beaver can be refuelled in 5 minutes, how long to recharge that battery?

Kittyhawk 17th December 1903, 12 seconds, 103 feet, 6.8 mph, momentous?

No...if the story was about a standard aircraft.

Do mean radial engine and is "round" just another name for radial? If you meant radial you raise a good point. The application of torque into the airframe will certainly be most different between a radial IC engine and the round electric engine compared to any other IC engine and therefore changing the controls flying characteristics of the a/c the most. Since HA has a number of older Beavers (depreciated to low value) they decided to use this as a test bed; even if it would be more challenging to design they also had access to the world experts in DHC-2's at Viking to help them. All of the pilots that I came across when a pax sitting in the co-pilot seat in DHC-2's over the Straight were trained and competent on a/c other than the DHC-2 and would have treated the electric DHC-2 as just another a/c type that they had to learn.