{"id":166848,"date":"2023-07-04T01:23:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T06:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/faa-clears-california-companys-flying-car-for-takeoff"},"modified":"2023-07-04T01:23:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T06:23:37","slug":"faa-clears-california-companys-flying-car-for-takeoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/faa-clears-california-companys-flying-car-for-takeoff","title":{"rendered":"FAA clears California company\u2019s flying car for takeoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/faa-clears-california-companys-flying-car-for-takeoff3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>July 3 (UPI) \u2014 A California startup announced its prototype flying car has been cleared for takeoff by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Federal_Aviation_Administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Federal Aviation Administration\" class=\"\">Federal Aviation Administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alef Aeronautics said its \u201cModel A\u201d is the first flying vehicle that can drive on public roads and park like an average car to receive clearance for flight by the FAA.<\/p>\n<p>The FAA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/07\/03\/tech\/flying-car-faa\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed the vehicle<\/a> was given a special airworthiness certificate for purposes including research, development and exhibition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 3 (UPI) \u2014 A California startup announced its prototype flying car has been cleared for takeoff by the Federal Aviation Administration. Alef Aeronautics said its \u201cModel A\u201d is the first flying vehicle that can drive on public roads and park like an average car to receive clearance for flight by the FAA. The FAA [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166848","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}