{"id":2987,"date":"2026-02-10T15:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinas-space-industry-developed-evtol-aircraft-completes-first-flight\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T15:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:56:17","slug":"chinas-space-industry-developed-evtol-aircraft-completes-first-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinas-space-industry-developed-evtol-aircraft-completes-first-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s space industry-developed eVTOL aircraft completes first flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p  >An electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, developed by the ninth academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, completed its maiden flight in southwest China&#8217;s Chongqing Municipality on Friday.<\/p>\n<p  >Featuring a novel configuration that combines air vehicles and automobile designs, the eVTOL aircraft can seamlessly switch between land and air travel modes to meet diverse transport needs, its developer said.<\/p>\n<p  >Consisting of wings, a cabin and a chassis, the aircraft has two major components: an airborne module and a road-going module. The airborne one is capable of carrying two passengers at a speed of 150 km per hour at altitudes below 3,000 meters, and the road-going one, with a fully electric intelligent chassis, can deliver a range exceeding 300 km.<\/p>\n<p  >As a multipurpose low-altitude equipment, the eVTOL aircraft can be used in fields such as transportation, logistics and emergency support, according to its developer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, developed by the ninth academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, completed its maiden flight in southwest China&#8217;s Chongqing Municipality on Friday. Featuring a novel configuration that combines air vehicles and automobile designs, the eVTOL aircraft can seamlessly switch between land and air travel modes to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}