{"id":117806,"date":"2020-12-30T21:23:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T05:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/swiss-firm-engineers-hybrid-electric-evtol-estol-prototype"},"modified":"2020-12-30T21:23:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T05:23:52","slug":"swiss-firm-engineers-hybrid-electric-evtol-estol-prototype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/swiss-firm-engineers-hybrid-electric-evtol-estol-prototype","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Firm Engineers Hybrid Electric eVTOL\/eSTOL Prototype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/swiss-firm-engineers-hybrid-electric-evtol-estol-prototype.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Swiss firm has engineered a one-third scale model of a hybrid-electric aircraft capable of <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/worlds-first-all-electric-vertical-take-off-flying-car-nails-test-flight\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-id=\"embedded internal links\" data-type=\"link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/worlds-first-all-electric-vertical-take-off-flying-car-nails-test-flight\">vertical take-off and landing<\/a> (VTOL) or efficient short take-off and landing (STOL) operations. The nifty vehicle will soon be performing its first test flight.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/new-evtol-vertical-rotor-aircraft-joins-the-aerospace-race\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-id=\"related links\" data-type=\"link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/new-evtol-vertical-rotor-aircraft-joins-the-aerospace-race\"> <strong>RELATED:<\/strong> <strong>NEW EVTOL VERTICAL ROTOR AIRCRAFT JOINS THE AEROSPACE RACE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The firm, called Manta Aircraft, says their new model combines the best features of a helicopter and a plane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Swiss firm has engineered a one-third scale model of a hybrid-electric aircraft capable of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) or efficient short take-off and landing (STOL) operations. The nifty vehicle will soon be performing its first test flight. RELATED: NEW EVTOL VERTICAL ROTOR AIRCRAFT JOINS THE AEROSPACE RACE The firm, called Manta Aircraft, says [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117806","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=117806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}