{"id":9367,"date":"2019-10-10T07:46:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T14:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=9367"},"modified":"2019-10-07T21:00:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T04:00:04","slug":"sky-flash-kitty-hawks-electric-vtol-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/10\/sky-flash-kitty-hawks-electric-vtol-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky flash: Kitty Hawk&#8217;s electric VTOL aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen\u2014not if\u2014I die in a fiery crash on Highway 101,\u201d I\u2019ve long told people, \u201cyou\u2019ll remember that I called it that I\u2019d be rubbernecking at some awesome aircraft buzzing overhead.\u201d I\u2019ve always figured it\u2019d be a Blue Angel or An-124 or something, but now I can imagine it being Uncle Larry (who helps fund electric-plane startup Kitty Hawk), softly zipping by in <a href=\"https:\/\/kittyhawk.aero\/heaviside\/\">one of these chariots of future<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Project Heaviside by Kitty Hawk\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q7mc3C19kE4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sign me up for the last bit in particular:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Project Heaviside is Kitty Hawk\u2019s latest high-performance electric VTOL vehicle. It is designed to be fast, small and exceedingly quiet, taking advantage of new possibilities to free people from traffic.<\/p>\n<p>The Heaviside vehicle is roughly 100 times quieter than a regular helicopter. Once in the air, the vehicle blends into the background noise of a city or suburb, barely discernible to the human ear.<strong> Heaviside can travel from San Jose to San Francisco in 15 minutes and uses less than half the energy of a car<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/NewImage-5.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"598\" height=\"454\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/q7mc3C19kE4\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen\u2014not if\u2014I die in a fiery crash on Highway 101,\u201d I\u2019ve long told people, \u201cyou\u2019ll remember that I called it that I\u2019d be rubbernecking at some awesome aircraft buzzing overhead.\u201d I\u2019ve always figured it\u2019d be a Blue Angel or An-124 or something, but now I can imagine it being Uncle Larry (who helps fund electric-plane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9367"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9368,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9367\/revisions\/9368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}