{"id":160,"date":"2019-09-19T07:32:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T07:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.e-flight-journal.com\/?p=160"},"modified":"2019-09-19T07:32:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T07:32:05","slug":"volocopter-flew-first-time-in-an-european-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"Volocopter flew first time in an European city"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On September 14 Volocopter made its urban flight debut at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart. The flight demo was a part of the event \u00a0\u201cVision Smart City \u2014 Experience future mobility today\u201d held during the weekend. The flight lasted near 4 minutes at about 30 meters altitude. The video of the complete flight from takeoff to landing is below (you may want to turn up the sound volumn to listen to the sound: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=16&amp;v=mH1zk0KOFho\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=16&amp;v=mH1zk0KOFho<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One noticeable thing was the low noise level of Volocopter which claims 65 decibel at 75 meters. This noise level is comparable with small helicopters&#8216; noise level at 500 meters and is about the same as the background road noise in urban environment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/news.e-flight-journal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/9be020ec-1452-4529-92f5-75b21a24c043-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/9be020ec-1452-4529-92f5-75b21a24c043-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/9be020ec-1452-4529-92f5-75b21a24c043-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/9be020ec-1452-4529-92f5-75b21a24c043-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/9be020ec-1452-4529-92f5-75b21a24c043-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/9be020ec-1452-4529-92f5-75b21a24c043.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption> The flight lasted near 4 minutes at about 30 meters altitude<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/news.e-flight-journal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20190919152517-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20190919152517-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20190919152517-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20190919152517-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20190919152517-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20190919152517.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>your editor Xin Gou and the electric aviation veteran and publisher of e Flight Journal Willi Tacke attended the event and had a ride in Volocopter at zero AGL<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 14 Volocopter made its urban flight debut at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart. The flight demo was a part of the event \u00a0\u201cVision Smart City \u2014 Experience future mobility today\u201d held during the weekend. The flight lasted near 4 minutes at about 30 meters altitude. The video of the complete flight from takeoff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}