{"id":338244,"date":"2020-02-20T10:17:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T04:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=338244"},"modified":"2020-02-20T10:33:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T05:03:43","slug":"indigo-to-get-electric-taxis-that-can-move-plane-without-engine-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-to-get-electric-taxis-that-can-move-plane-without-engine-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigo to get electric taxis that can move plane without engine support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IndiGo on Wednesday announced that it has signed a letter of intent with WheelTug, which would provide its electric taxi system that can drive the plane forward and backward without powering up its engines or using external tugs. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;IndiGo recently signed a letter of intent reserving a large number of WheelTug systems. WheelTug provides onboard electric motors, mounted into the nosewheel of aircraft&#8230;.These simple systems enable aircraft to travel on the ground without tugs or engines,&#8221; the airline said in its press release. <\/p>\n<p>WheelTug systems will enable far more &#8220;manoeuvrability and independence&#8221; for aircraft in the ramp area, the airline stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IndiGo on Wednesday announced that it has signed a letter of intent with WheelTug, which would provide its electric taxi system that can drive the plane forward and backward without powering up its engines or using external tugs. &#8220;IndiGo recently signed a letter of intent reserving a large number of WheelTug systems. WheelTug provides onboard electric motors, mounted into the nosewheel of aircraft&#8230;.These simple systems enable aircraft to travel on the ground without tugs or engines,&#8221; the airline said in its press release. WheelTug systems will enable far more &#8220;manoeuvrability and independence&#8221; for aircraft in the ramp area, the airline [&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-338244","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\/338244","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=338244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}