{"id":192302,"date":"2024-07-04T00:22:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T05:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/video-shows-new-hybrid-aircraft-complete-mind-blowing-test-flight-with-almost-no-runway-an-incredible-achievement"},"modified":"2024-07-04T00:22:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T05:22:25","slug":"video-shows-new-hybrid-aircraft-complete-mind-blowing-test-flight-with-almost-no-runway-an-incredible-achievement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/video-shows-new-hybrid-aircraft-complete-mind-blowing-test-flight-with-almost-no-runway-an-incredible-achievement","title":{"rendered":"Video shows new hybrid aircraft complete mind-blowing test flight with \u2018almost no runway\u2019: \u2018An incredible achievement\u2019"},"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\/esTykmreHuQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The next-gen aerospace company Electra has achieved a remarkable milestone with its hybrid-electric test aircraft, which took off in under 170 feet on its first test flight \u2014 around 10% of the typical length of conventional airplane runways.<\/p>\n<p>In a company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electra.aero\/news\/electras-test-aircraft-achieves-first-ultra-short-estol-flights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">news release<\/a>, Electra said that test flights of its hybrid-electric short takeoff and landing (eSTOL) aircraft, the EL-2 Goldfinch, took place earlier this year at several Virginia airports. Although the vehicle is designed to take off and land on airstrips about the size of a soccer field (300 feet by 100 feet), as New Atlas <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/aircraft\/electra-estol-first-short-takeoff-landing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">described<\/a>, it needed \u201calmost no runway\u201d to take flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next-gen aerospace company Electra has achieved a remarkable milestone with its hybrid-electric test aircraft, which took off in under 170 feet on its first test flight \u2014 around 10% of the typical length of conventional airplane runways. In a company news release, Electra said that test flights of its hybrid-electric short takeoff and landing [\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-192302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192302","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=192302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}