{"id":183816,"date":"2024-02-27T15:25:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T21:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/swiss-startup-unveils-the-worlds-first-hydrogen-vtol-jet"},"modified":"2024-02-27T15:25:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T21:25:42","slug":"swiss-startup-unveils-the-worlds-first-hydrogen-vtol-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/swiss-startup-unveils-the-worlds-first-hydrogen-vtol-jet","title":{"rendered":"Swiss startup unveils the world\u2019s first hydrogen VTOL jet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PeqQhrn3kn4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Swiss startup Sirius Aviation has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/sirius-aviation-ag-unveils-worlds-first-hydrogen-vtol-aircraft-sirius-jet-302030881.html\">unveiled<\/a> what it says is the world\u2019s first hydrogen VTOL (vertical take off and landing) aircraft \u2014 and an ambitious plan to have it in the air by 2025.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge:<\/strong> Electric VTOLs (eVTOLs) are widely promoted as the next big thing in aviation, and dozens of companies developing their own versions of the vehicles \u2014 fleets of flying electric taxis planned to zip around cities and over traffic jams.<\/p>\n<p>Like helicopters, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/series\/challengers\/electric-vertical-takeoff-landing-aircraft\">eVTOLs<\/a> can lift off and land without a runway, which means they can operate without airports or runways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss startup Sirius Aviation has unveiled what it says is the world\u2019s first hydrogen VTOL (vertical take off and landing) aircraft \u2014 and an ambitious plan to have it in the air by 2025. The challenge: Electric VTOLs (eVTOLs) are widely promoted as the next big thing in aviation, and dozens of companies developing their [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183816","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=183816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}