{"id":132323,"date":"2021-12-13T04:22:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T12:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/worlds-fastest-aircraft-british-engineering-firm-smashed-all-records-of-environment-friendly-electric-planes"},"modified":"2021-12-13T04:22:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T12:22:54","slug":"worlds-fastest-aircraft-british-engineering-firm-smashed-all-records-of-environment-friendly-electric-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/worlds-fastest-aircraft-british-engineering-firm-smashed-all-records-of-environment-friendly-electric-planes","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s Fastest Aircraft: British Engineering Firm \u2018Smashed\u2019 All Records Of Environment Friendly Electric Planes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-fastest-aircraft-british-engineering-firm-smashed-all-records-of-environment-friendly-electric-planes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rolls-Royce, the 115-year-old iconic British Engineering firm, has now achieved a new feat. After manufacturing world-class jet engines, it has left its mark in the electric aviation world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Spirit of Innovation, a single-seat, electric-powered propeller plane built by Rolls-Royce, obliterated the zero-emission speed record, reaching over 556 kilometers per hour (345 mph) over a three-kilometer distance\u2014and even maxing out at 623 kilometers per hour. This flight successfully <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2021\/12\/04\/rolls-royce-electric-flight-speed-record-spirit-of-innovation-air-taxi-business\/\">smashed<\/a> all previous records of electric planes which are environment friendly.<\/p>\n<p>With a clarion call given by the COP26 on the need to cut emissions, Rolls-Royce has presented itself as a company that could earnestly provide that solution. With the aviation industry registering a record number of flights after a year of lockdowns, the emissions are set to grow further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolls-Royce, the 115-year-old iconic British Engineering firm, has now achieved a new feat. After manufacturing world-class jet engines, it has left its mark in the electric aviation world. Spirit of Innovation, a single-seat, electric-powered propeller plane built by Rolls-Royce, obliterated the zero-emission speed record, reaching over 556 kilometers per hour (345 mph) over a three-kilometer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132323","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\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}