Here is an unusual use of an electric motor. Moving a Boeing 767 with a small electric motor on the wheel:
http://www.wheeltug.gi/beta/ They take the power from the small aux. motor in the back of the plane and drive the plane with.
Airplanes are step by step becoming more electrical. I read that all in all, there is something like 500 kW of power distributed by a 115/200V 400 Hz system in upcoming airplanes. It's just a question of time before you will be asked to do the rough in on a 787.
Maybe we should ask Winnie in chorus how this little motor can move a big airplane?