{"id":24531,"date":"2023-01-15T21:26:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T21:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=24531"},"modified":"2023-01-15T21:26:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T21:26:12","slug":"horizon-aircraft-successfully-completes-hover-testing-of-vtol-aircraft-prototype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/international-news\/horizon-aircraft-successfully-completes-hover-testing-of-vtol-aircraft-prototype\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Horizon Aircraft Successfully Completes Hover Testing of VTOL Aircraft Prototype"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Horizon Aircraft (\u201cCompany\u201d or \u201cHorizon\u201d) announced that it\nhas successfully completed initial hover testing of its \u201cCavorite X5\u201d scale\nprototype. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Horizon-Cavorite-2-edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24533\" width=\"359\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Horizon-Cavorite-2-edit.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Horizon-Cavorite-2-edit-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Brandon Robinson, CEO of Horizon Aircraft said, \u201cthis\naircraft has exceeded expectations during initial hover testing. It is\nextremely stable, is capable of full hover at only 65% power, and has hovered\nwith 20% of its fans purposely disabled in order to test system redundancy.\nThis is a large-scale aircraft, with a 22-foot wingspan, over 15 feet in\nlength, and capable of speeds over 175 mph. It continues to yield valuable data\nthat is constantly improving our full-scale design.\u201d&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Horizon\u2019s innovative and patented eVTOL concept allows the\naircraft to fly 98% of its mission in a very low-drag configuration like a\ntraditional aircraft and is one of the only eVTOL aircraft currently able to do\nso. Flying most of the mission as a normal aircraft is safer, more efficient,\nand will be easier to certify than radical new eVTOL designs. The full-scale\naircraft will also be powered by a hybrid electric system that can recharge the\nbattery array in-flight while providing additional system redundancy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Horizon Aircraft plans to move to transition flight testing\nin Q1 2023 at the world class ACE Climatic Wind Tunnel located near Toronto,\nOntario.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horizon Aircraft (\u201cCompany\u201d or \u201cHorizon\u201d) announced that it has successfully completed initial hover testing of its \u201cCavorite X5\u201d scale prototype. Brandon Robinson, CEO of Horizon Aircraft said, \u201cthis aircraft has exceeded expectations during initial hover testing. It is extremely stable, is capable of full hover at only 65% power, and has hovered with 20% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[140,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evtol","category-international-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Horizon-Cavorite-edit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24534,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24531\/revisions\/24534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}