{"id":25762,"date":"2016-05-15T13:48:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T20:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/this-electric-jet-can-take-off-vertically-but-drives-like-a-car"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:22:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:22:34","slug":"this-electric-jet-can-take-off-vertically-but-drives-like-a-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/this-electric-jet-can-take-off-vertically-but-drives-like-a-car","title":{"rendered":"This electric jet can take off vertically but drives like a car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-electric-jet-can-take-off-vertically-but-drives-like-a-car.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With zero emissions and zero runway, the Lilium Jet will be the world\u2019s first entirely electric jet capable of a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL). Able to fly up to an altitude of about 9,800 feet, the two-person airplane will have a cruising speed of 180 mph, a maximum speed of about 250 mph, and a range of 300 miles. At the forefront of functionality, the environmentally conscious conveyance will also be able to fold back its wings and be driven as a car.<\/p>\n<p>To provide lift and keep the craft aloft, a series of tiltable electric engines will generate a combined 435 hp. Steering and navigation is done through a computer-assisted control system, and the only requisite to operate the vehicle will be a Sport Pilot License (SPL) requiring a minimum of 20 hours of flight time.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-electric-jet-can-take-off-vertically-but-drives-like-a-car2.jpg\" alt=\"Lilium Aviaiton jet\" data-mce-source=\"Lilium Aviaiton\"><br \/> Lilium Aviaiton.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/this-electric-jet-can-take-off-vertically-but-drives-like-a-car-2016-5?utm_content=buffer85436&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/this-electric-jet-can-take-of...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With zero emissions and zero runway, the Lilium Jet will be the world\u2019s first entirely electric jet capable of a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL). Able to fly up to an altitude of about 9,800 feet, the two-person airplane will have a cruising speed of 180 mph, a maximum speed of about 250 mph, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25762","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=25762"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61799,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25762\/revisions\/61799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}