{"id":118215,"date":"2021-01-09T03:22:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T11:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/these-futuristic-flying-ambulances-may-soon-be-zooming-around-new-york"},"modified":"2021-01-09T03:22:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T11:22:42","slug":"these-futuristic-flying-ambulances-may-soon-be-zooming-around-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/these-futuristic-flying-ambulances-may-soon-be-zooming-around-new-york","title":{"rendered":"These Futuristic Flying Ambulances May Soon Be Zooming Around New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/these-futuristic-flying-ambulances-may-soon-be-zooming-around-new-york2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Israeli aerospace company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanaero.com\/index.html\">Urban Aeronautics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanaero.com\/press.html\">announced<\/a> this week that it sold its first four vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hatzolair.org\/\">Hatzolah Air<\/a>, a nonprofit emergency medical air transport provider based in New York. The organization already operates fixed-wing aircraft (meaning propeller-driven or powered by a jet engine, with wings that don\u2019t move) as part of its emergency missions.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, \u201cflying ambulances\u201d isn\u2019t a new concept; they\u2019ve existed for a long time in the form of helicopters and planes. In fact, the Association of Air Medical Services <a href=\"https:\/\/aams.org\/member-services\/fact-sheet-faqs\/\">estimates<\/a> that around 550000 people get medevaced in the US each year.<\/p>\n<p>But Urban Aeronautics\u2019 Cormorant CityHawk, as the aircraft is called, will bring some functional new features to the skies. Though it\u2019s lightweight and has a compact footprint, its interior cabin is 20 to 30 percent larger than that of a helicopter, meaning it will be able to fit two EMTs, the patient plus a companion, and medical equipment (plus the pilot) without things getting too cramped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli aerospace company Urban Aeronautics announced this week that it sold its first four vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft to Hatzolah Air, a nonprofit emergency medical air transport provider based in New York. The organization already operates fixed-wing aircraft (meaning propeller-driven or powered by a jet engine, with wings that don\u2019t move) as part [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118215","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}