{"id":994,"date":"2013-03-06T20:42:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T20:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=994"},"modified":"2021-10-01T16:01:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T20:01:27","slug":"sci-tech-electric-tilt-rotor-aircraft-unveiled-by-agustawestland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=994","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Tech: Electric tilt-rotor aircraft unveiled by AgustaWestland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.agustawestland.com\/\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener\">AgustaWestland<\/a> has designed, built and flown a prototype tilt-rotor vehicle that uses only electric power:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/autopia\/2013\/03\/agustawestland-electric-tilt-rotor\/\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener\">Meet Project Zero, the World&#8217;s First Electric Tilt-Rotor Aircraft &#8211; Autopia\/Wired.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.agustawestland.com\/news\/agustawestland-unveils-project-zero-tilt-rotor-technology-demonstrator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AgustaWestland Unveils \u201cProject Zero\u201d Tilt Rotor Technology Demonstrator &#8211; AgustaWestland<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.agustawestland.com\/news\/agustawestland-unveils-project-zero-tilt-rotor-technology-demonstrator\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"996\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=996\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AW1019-web.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"448,336\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;CX2&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1337428881&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;29.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0018518518518519&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Exif_JPEG_PICTURE&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Exif_JPEG_PICTURE\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AW1019-web.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-996\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AW1019-web.jpg\" alt=\"Exif_JPEG_PICTURE\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AW1019-web.jpg 448w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AW1019-web-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><em>Photo credits: AgustaWestland<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AgustaWestland has designed, built and flown a prototype tilt-rotor vehicle that uses only electric power: Meet Project Zero, the World&#8217;s First Electric Tilt-Rotor Aircraft &#8211; Autopia\/Wired.com AgustaWestland Unveils \u201cProject Zero\u201d Tilt Rotor Technology Demonstrator &#8211; AgustaWestland Photo credits: AgustaWestland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-g2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10555,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10555","url_meta":{"origin":994,"position":0},"title":"Sci-Tech: A survey of 6 flying car projects + Electric 10-engine tilt-rotor prototype","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 9, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"A survey of flying car projects:\u00a0Are Flying Cars For Real This Time?\u00a0-\u00a0Epoch Times. 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