{"id":40,"date":"2013-03-02T15:08:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T15:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yesflyers.org.uk\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2021-02-22T09:52:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T09:52:43","slug":"into-the-future","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/yesflyers.org.uk\/home\/into-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Into The future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"cyhZ9\">For $140,000, you can fly your own electric airplane. The Slovenian company\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pipistrel-aircraft.com\/\" data-ol-has-click-handler=\"\">Pipistrel<\/a>\u00a0sells the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pipistrel-aircraft.com\/aircraft\/electric-flight\/alpha-electro\/#tab-id-2\">Alpha Electro<\/a>, the first electric aircraft\u00a0certified as airworthy\u00a0by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in 2018. It\u2019s a welterweight at just 811 pounds (368 kilograms), powered by a 21 kWh battery pack\u2014about\u00a0one-fifth\u00a0the power of what you\u2019d find in a Tesla Model S. For about 90 minutes, the\u00a0pilot training plane\u00a0will keep you and a companion aloft without burning a drop of fossil fuel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cyhZ9\">Those of us without a pilot license will have to wait longer for emissions-free flight\u2014but not much. For all its challenges, 2020 has proven to be a milestone year for electric aviation. Electric aircraft set new distance records, replicated short commercial flight paths,\u00a0won over the US military, and attracted buyers from big airlines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cyhZ9\">And in June, European regulators granted another of Pipistrel\u2019s aircraft, the Velis Electro, the world\u2019s first electric \u201ctype certification,\u201d deeming the entire aircraft design safe and ready for mass production (airworthiness only certifies individual aircraft).<\/p>\n<p class=\"cyhZ9\">Much more is coming. Within two years, you\u2019ll be able to watch\u00a0Air Race E, a circuit that pits eight electric-powered airplanes against each other, zooming just 32 feet (10 meters) off the ground at 280 mph (450 kph). Electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) leaders Archer, Joby, and Beta are reading their battery-powered flights on the question for certification.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Youth and Education Support (YES) is not responsible for the content of external Internet sites, and if you do decide to download anything from a link PLEASE ASK THE OWNER of the computer first.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For $140,000, you can fly your own electric airplane. The Slovenian company\u00a0Pipistrel\u00a0sells the\u00a0Alpha Electro, the first electric aircraft\u00a0certified as airworthy\u00a0by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in 2018. It\u2019s a welterweight at just 811 pounds (368 kilograms), powered by a 21 kWh battery pack\u2014about\u00a0one-fifth\u00a0the power of what you\u2019d find in a Tesla Model S. For about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/yesflyers.org.uk\/home\/into-the-future\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Into The future<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yesflyers.org.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yesflyers.org.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yesflyers.org.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yesflyers.org.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yesflyers.org.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/yesflyers.org.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4481,"href":"https:\/\/yesflyers.org.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions\/4481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yesflyers.org.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}