{"id":109743,"date":"2022-06-09T19:28:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T13:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=109743"},"modified":"2022-06-09T19:28:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T13:58:52","slug":"electric-vertical-take-off-and-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/electric-vertical-take-off-and-landing\/","title":{"rendered":"ELECTRIC VERTICAL TAKE &#8211; OFF AND LANDING: UPSC Daily Important Topic | 9 June 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ELECTRIC VERTICAL TAKE &#8211; OFF AND LANDING<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Union Civil Aviation Ministry is exploring the possibility of inviting manufacturers of Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft to set up base in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25a1 What is eVTOL ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2713EVTOL aircraft is one that uses electric power to hover, take off, and land vertically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2713 Most eVTOLs also use what is called as distributed electric propulsion technology which means integrating a complex propulsion system with the airframe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2713There are multiple motors for various functions; to increase efficiency; and to also ensure safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2713 It works on electric propulsion based on progress in motor, battery, fuel cell and electronic controller technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2713 It is also fuelled by the need for new vehicle technology that ensures urban air mobility (UAM).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELECTRIC VERTICAL TAKE &#8211; OFF AND LANDING The Union Civil Aviation Ministry is exploring the possibility of inviting manufacturers of Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft to set up base in India. \u25a1 What is eVTOL ? \u2713EVTOL aircraft is one that uses electric power to hover, take off, and land vertically. \u2713 Most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":109744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1755],"tags":[1797],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-109743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upsc-important-topics","tag-upsc-daily-important-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109745,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109743\/revisions\/109745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109743"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=109743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}