Hawaiian Holdings is investing in a company developing electric seagliders that the airline hopes to fly on short hops between islands.

The battery-powered seagliders being developed by Regent, a Boston-based startup, are a hybrid of a boat and a plane. They would cruise five to 30 feet above the waves on average, flying on a cushion of air that keeps the plane aloft, known as the “ground effect.”

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