{"id":166198,"date":"2023-06-22T08:23:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T13:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/maglev-aero-unveils-breakthrough-hyperdrive-evtol-propulsion-system"},"modified":"2023-06-22T08:23:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T13:23:32","slug":"maglev-aero-unveils-breakthrough-hyperdrive-evtol-propulsion-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/maglev-aero-unveils-breakthrough-hyperdrive-evtol-propulsion-system","title":{"rendered":"MagLev Aero unveils \u201cbreakthrough\u201d HyperDrive eVTOL propulsion system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/maglev-aero-unveils-breakthrough-hyperdrive-evtol-propulsion-system2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A fascinating eVTOL project is about to come out of stealth, showcasing a \u201cbreakthrough HyperDrive propulsion technology\u201d that MagLev Aero claims is \u201cdramatically more quiet, efficient, safe, sustainable and emotionally appealing to the mass market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from the Boston-based company have made their way to the Paris Air Show, where they\u2019re preparing to reveal a very different approach to electric vertical lift aircraft, drawing on the magnetic levitation technology used in high-speed trains.<\/p>\n<p>What we appear to have here is an annular lift fan arrangement. The aircraft\u2019s cabin appears to be surrounded by a huge ring-shaped duct, into which at least one large-diameter, many-bladed fan is mounted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fascinating eVTOL project is about to come out of stealth, showcasing a \u201cbreakthrough HyperDrive propulsion technology\u201d that MagLev Aero claims is \u201cdramatically more quiet, efficient, safe, sustainable and emotionally appealing to the mass market.\u201d Representatives from the Boston-based company have made their way to the Paris Air Show, where they\u2019re preparing to reveal a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166198","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}