{"id":375726,"date":"2020-09-29T08:29:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T02:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=375726"},"modified":"2020-09-29T09:05:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T03:35:00","slug":"chinas-indigenous-unmanned-plateau-helicopter-makes-maiden-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chinas-indigenous-unmanned-plateau-helicopter-makes-maiden-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s indigenous unmanned plateau helicopter makes maiden flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s first homemade unmanned helicopter focussing on high-altitude areas has successfully completed a maiden flight in a plateau region, its manufacturer said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>The AR-500C prototype completed its first plateau flight at the Daocheng Yading Airport, which is the world&#8217;s highest civilian airport with an elevation of 4,411 metres, the state-owned Aviation Industry Corp of China (AVIC) said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>This flight broke the record for the elevation at which a domestically built unmanned helicopter took off and landed, it said. <\/p>\n<p>During the 15-minute flight, the drone completed a series of tests including climbing, hovering, rotating and other operations manoeuvres, before steadily landing, AVIC said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s first homemade unmanned helicopter focussing on high-altitude areas has successfully completed a maiden flight in a plateau region, its manufacturer said on Monday. The AR-500C prototype completed its first plateau flight at the Daocheng Yading Airport, which is the world&#8217;s highest civilian airport with an elevation of 4,411 metres, the state-owned Aviation Industry Corp of China (AVIC) said in a statement. This flight broke the record for the elevation at which a domestically built unmanned helicopter took off and landed, it said. During the 15-minute flight, the drone completed a series of tests including climbing, hovering, rotating and other [&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-375726","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\/375726","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=375726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}