{"id":125274,"date":"2021-07-21T12:45:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T19:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/flying-motorcycle-that-can-reach-300mph-completes-first-flight-test"},"modified":"2021-07-21T12:45:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T19:45:17","slug":"flying-motorcycle-that-can-reach-300mph-completes-first-flight-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/flying-motorcycle-that-can-reach-300mph-completes-first-flight-test","title":{"rendered":"Flying motorcycle that can reach 300mph completes first flight test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/videos.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/mol\/2021\/07\/19\/7891932164225679265\/1024x576_MP4_7891932164225679265.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>The makers of a luxury vehicle billed as a \u2018flying motorcycle\u2019 that can travel upwards of 300mph have completed flight testing their first prototype and are ready to take preorders.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jetpackaviation.com\/\">Jetpack Aviation<\/a> envisions its Speeder\u2014a jet-powered, vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft\u2014as both a pleasure craft and a mission vehicle well-suited for medical teams and fire and rescue operations.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s P1 prototype has an aluminum chassis and was tethered during recent flight testing in Southern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/california\/index.html\" id=\"mol-0a0806d0-e8cd-11eb-9bb9-a52aab11ff2e\">California<\/a>, where it hit several benchmarks that \u2018demonstrated the Speeder\u2019s ability to take-off, climb, hover, yaw and perform slow transitions into forward flight,\u2019 <a class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aerospacetestinginternational.com\/news\/drones-air-taxis\/jetpack-aviations-vtol-speeder-prototype-passes-first-round-of-flight-testing.html\">Aerospace Testing International<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The makers of a luxury vehicle billed as a \u2018flying motorcycle\u2019 that can travel upwards of 300mph have completed flight testing their first prototype and are ready to take preorders. Jetpack Aviation envisions its Speeder\u2014a jet-powered, vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft\u2014as both a pleasure craft and a mission vehicle well-suited for medical teams and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125274","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=125274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}