{"id":106996,"date":"2020-05-12T23:04:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T06:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/why-evtols-could-be-providing-regional-air-service-sooner-than-you-think"},"modified":"2020-05-12T23:04:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T06:04:14","slug":"why-evtols-could-be-providing-regional-air-service-sooner-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/why-evtols-could-be-providing-regional-air-service-sooner-than-you-think","title":{"rendered":"Why eVTOLs could be providing regional air service sooner than you think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-evtols-could-be-providing-regional-air-service-sooner-than-you-think.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At Uber\u2019s Elevate summit in Washington, DC earlier this month, researchers, industry leaders and engineers gathered to celebrate the approaching advent of on-demand air service. For Dr. Anita Sengupta, co-founder and Chief Product Office at Detroit\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflyasx.com\">Airspace Experience Technologies<\/a> (abbreviated ASX), it was an event full of validation of her company\u2019s specific approach to making electric vertical take-off and landing craft a working, commercially viable reality.<\/p>\n<p>ASX\u2019s eVTOL design is a tilt-wing design, which is distinct from the tilt-rotor design you might see on some of the splashier concept vehicles in the category. As you might\u2019ve inferred from the name of each type of aircraft, with tilt-wing designs the entire wing of the aircraft can change orientation, while on tilt-rotor, just the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bellflight.com\/military\/bell-v-280\">rotor itself adjust independent of the wing structure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The benefits of ASX\u2019s tilt-wing choice, according to Sengupta, is speed to market and compatibility with existing regulatory and pilot licensing frameworks \u2013 and that\u2019s why ASX could be providing cargo transport service relatively quickly for paying customers, with passenger travel to follow once regulators and the public get comfortable with the idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Uber\u2019s Elevate summit in Washington, DC earlier this month, researchers, industry leaders and engineers gathered to celebrate the approaching advent of on-demand air service. For Dr. Anita Sengupta, co-founder and Chief Product Office at Detroit\u2019s Airspace Experience Technologies (abbreviated ASX), it was an event full of validation of her company\u2019s specific approach to making [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}