{"id":115878,"date":"2020-11-14T20:22:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T04:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/jetcopter-vtol-to-be-revealed-at-aero-2019"},"modified":"2020-11-14T20:22:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T04:22:46","slug":"jetcopter-vtol-to-be-revealed-at-aero-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/jetcopter-vtol-to-be-revealed-at-aero-2019","title":{"rendered":"Jetcopter VTOL to be Revealed at AERO 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jetcopter-vtol-to-be-revealed-at-aero-2019.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2019<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A full-scale mock-up of the Jetcopter vertical-takeoff-and-landing concept vehicle will be shown for the first time at April\u2019s AERO 2019 show in Friedrichshafen, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The startup air taxi\u2019s claim to fame is its powerplant: Dual 500 hp, 6,000 rpm motors \u2014 converted from automotive applications \u2014 push two 200 cm air turbines. The resulting 600 mph airflow velocity powers the Jetcopter to a claimed top speed of close to 200 mph with a 620-plus-mile range.<\/p>\n<p>The Jetcopter is unusual in that it does not have large rotor blades, like a helicopter, fixed wings, or tiltable turbines distributed to the ends of shafts like other air taxis. Instead, its two turbines are fixed above the cabin and it is engineered to divert the airflow to four endpoints, where the air can be vectored in a chosen direction, helping to direct the aircraft, a la the Harrier Jump Jet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2019 A full-scale mock-up of the Jetcopter vertical-takeoff-and-landing concept vehicle will be shown for the first time at April\u2019s AERO 2019 show in Friedrichshafen, Germany. The startup air taxi\u2019s claim to fame is its powerplant: Dual 500 hp, 6,000 rpm motors \u2014 converted from automotive applications \u2014 push two 200 cm air turbines. The [\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-115878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115878","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=115878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}