{"id":198375,"date":"2024-10-27T12:30:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T17:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/faa-creates-americas-first-new-aircraft-category-since-the-1940s"},"modified":"2024-10-27T12:30:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T17:30:04","slug":"faa-creates-americas-first-new-aircraft-category-since-the-1940s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/faa-creates-americas-first-new-aircraft-category-since-the-1940s","title":{"rendered":"FAA creates America\u2019s first new aircraft category since the 1940s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/faa-creates-americas-first-new-aircraft-category-since-the-1940s.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a major jump into the era of eVTOL air taxis and multicopter cargo drones, the US FAA has issued new regulations that introduce the first new aircraft category, called \u201cpower-lift\u201d aircraft, since modern helicopters were introduced in the 1940s.<\/p>\n<p>According to the FAA and the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/FAR-AIM-2023-Regulations-Aeronautical\/dp\/1644252112\/ref=sr_1_1?tag=lifeboatfound-20\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)<\/a>, a power-lift aircraft is \u201ca heavier-than-air aircraft capable of vertical take-off, vertical landing, and low-speed flight, which depends principally on engine-driven lift devices or engine thrust for the lift during these flight regimes and on non-rotating aerofoils for lift during horizontal flight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, this means aircraft that combine the characteristics of both fixed-wing planes and helicopters. In other words, they can take off, hover, and land like helicopters, yet act like fixed-winged craft in horizontal flight. As of now, these include convertiplanes, tilt-rotors, tilt-wings, rotor-wings, tail-sitters, and VSTOL aircraft like the Harrier and the F-35B Lighting II that use vector thrust, lift jets, or lift fans for vertical flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major jump into the era of eVTOL air taxis and multicopter cargo drones, the US FAA has issued new regulations that introduce the first new aircraft category, called \u201cpower-lift\u201d aircraft, since modern helicopters were introduced in the 1940s. According to the FAA and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a power-lift aircraft is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198375","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=198375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}