{"id":446,"date":"2021-08-12T10:42:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T10:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.e-flight-journal.com\/?p=446"},"modified":"2021-08-12T10:42:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T10:42:19","slug":"uav-converted-from-the-chinese-rx1e-electric-airplane-took-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/?p=446","title":{"rendered":"UAV converted from the Chinese RX1E electric airplane took off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An UAV conversion of the Chinese RX1E electric light sports airplane made the first flight last week. It replaces the 50kw electric motor on the nose of the original RX1E with two electric ducted fans. The manufacturer of RX1E, LGAA,  says in a press release that with 28kwh battery the UAV conversion can fly for over 1 hour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/E8lCHFjVcAIlehp?format=png&amp;name=small\" alt=\"\u56fe\u50cf\"\/><figcaption><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/E8lEGjkVkAQM7Tr?format=jpg&amp;name=medium\" alt=\"\u56fe\u50cf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/E8lEYCTVkAI3c9A?format=jpg&amp;name=medium\" alt=\"\u56fe\u50cf\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>UAV conversion of RX1E electric LSA. Photo courtesy: LGAA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LGAA obtained the LSA type certificate for RX1E from CAAC, China&#8217;s civil aviation regulator, in 2015 and obtained the LSA type certificate for an upgraded model RX1E-A in 2018. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"670\" src=\"https:\/\/news.e-flight-journal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/45adfc672e4f321791b3f78b7004cb4-1024x670.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/45adfc672e4f321791b3f78b7004cb4-1024x670.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/45adfc672e4f321791b3f78b7004cb4-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/45adfc672e4f321791b3f78b7004cb4-768x502.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/45adfc672e4f321791b3f78b7004cb4-1200x785.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/45adfc672e4f321791b3f78b7004cb4.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>RX1E-A electric LSA. Photo courtesy: LGAA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An UAV conversion of the Chinese RX1E electric light sports airplane made the first flight last week. It replaces the 50kw electric motor on the nose of the original RX1E with two electric ducted fans. The manufacturer of RX1E, LGAA, says in a press release that with 28kwh battery the UAV conversion can fly for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","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\/446","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=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}