{"id":132995,"date":"2021-12-24T11:23:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T19:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/a-new-hybrid-aircraft-is-3-times-faster-than-a-helicopter"},"modified":"2021-12-24T11:23:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T19:23:16","slug":"a-new-hybrid-aircraft-is-3-times-faster-than-a-helicopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/a-new-hybrid-aircraft-is-3-times-faster-than-a-helicopter","title":{"rendered":"A New Hybrid Aircraft Is 3 Times Faster Than a Helicopter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-hybrid-aircraft-is-3-times-faster-than-a-helicopter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It burns about half the fuel of the same-sized rotorcraft.<\/p>\n<p>In 1989, Vox conceptualized fixed-wing vertical take-off and landing airframes (VTOL), along with a plethora of sketches that looked straight out of a sci-fi movie, for a way to innovate the idea. Several prototypes and component tests later, the aircraft is in its final stages of assembly, and testing is expected to start next year.<\/p>\n<p>Revolving around the concept of increasing the safety and convenience of the passenger, this hybrid aircraft can also fly three times faster than a helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur aircraft can travel at turboprop speeds and land on nearly any helipad in the world,\u201d Brian Morgan, the COO and EVP of engineering at Vox, told Robb Report. \u201cLike any helicopter, it provides the flexibility and ease of point-to-point travel, but at two to three times the speed, with more comfort and the ability to fly above the weather, all while burning about half the fuel of the same-sized rotorcraft performing the same mission,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Full Story:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It burns about half the fuel of the same-sized rotorcraft. In 1989, Vox conceptualized fixed-wing vertical take-off and landing airframes (VTOL), along with a plethora of sketches that looked straight out of a sci-fi movie, for a way to innovate the idea. Several prototypes and component tests later, the aircraft is in its final stages [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,38,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-engineering","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132995","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=132995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}