{"id":283141,"date":"2019-07-19T04:52:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T04:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=283141"},"modified":"2019-07-19T05:11:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T05:11:32","slug":"a-five-passenger-electric-airplanes-start-to-take-off-all-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/a-five-passenger-electric-airplanes-start-to-take-off-all-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"A five-passenger electric airplanes start to take off: All you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A five-passenger airplane took flight near Los Angeles recently with one important modification: an electric motor.<\/p>\n<p>The nearly 50-year-old plane, retrofitted by California-based startup Ampaire, still used a normal combustion engine to spin a propeller in its nose for the test flight. But engineers replaced a second engine with the electric motor, which powered a propeller in the back of the plane.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s kind of like a plug-in hybrid car,\u201d said Kevin Noertker, the co-founder and chief executive of Ampaire, which used some parts initially designed for automobiles to modify the plane. \u201cWe are really riding the coattails of ground electric vehicles here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A five-passenger airplane took flight near Los Angeles recently with one important modification: an electric motor. The nearly 50-year-old plane, retrofitted by California-based startup Ampaire, still used a normal combustion engine to spin a propeller in its nose for the test flight. But engineers replaced a second engine with the electric motor, which powered a propeller in the back of the plane. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of like a plug-in hybrid car,\u201d said Kevin Noertker, the co-founder and chief executive of Ampaire, which used some parts initially designed for automobiles to modify the plane. \u201cWe are really riding the coattails of ground [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}