{"id":130875,"date":"2021-11-19T13:48:13","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T21:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/the-egg-shaped-celera-500l-could-be-a-game-changer-for-luxury-aviation"},"modified":"2021-11-19T13:48:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T21:48:13","slug":"the-egg-shaped-celera-500l-could-be-a-game-changer-for-luxury-aviation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/the-egg-shaped-celera-500l-could-be-a-game-changer-for-luxury-aviation","title":{"rendered":"The Egg-Shaped Celera 500L Could Be a Game-Changer for Luxury Aviation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-egg-shaped-celera-500l-could-be-a-game-changer-for-luxury-aviation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By using \u2018the holy grail of low drag.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Business travel is going egg-shaped. Otto Aviation\u2019s Celera 500L was just put through its paces with its first flight tests, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5f3541f19bb2e80bcd4b0f98\/t\/6195357ffe1a8c086097718b\/1637168511672\/Otto+Aviation+Celera+500L%2C+55+Successful+Test+Flights%2C+November+2021.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">a press statement<\/a> reveals. The aircraft was designed as a business aircraft that is much cheaper to run than today\u2019s options.<\/p>\n<p>To achieve this ambitious goal, the Celera employs an egg-like design that achieves laminar flow \u2014 the uninterrupted flow of air \u2014 when in flight, vastly reducing drag by allowing air to flow smoothly over the aircraft\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By using \u2018the holy grail of low drag.\u2019 Business travel is going egg-shaped. Otto Aviation\u2019s Celera 500L was just put through its paces with its first flight tests, a press statement reveals. The aircraft was designed as a business aircraft that is much cheaper to run than today\u2019s options. To achieve this ambitious goal, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130875","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}