{"id":13632,"date":"2010-07-27T07:50:29","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T07:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1190801-4202256.cloudwaysapps.com\/uncategorized\/firefly-is-an-electricity-powered-helicopter-developed-by-sikorsky.php"},"modified":"2013-01-24T09:56:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T09:56:49","slug":"firefly-is-an-electricity-powered-helicopter-developed-by-sikorsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenlaunches.com\/transport\/firefly-is-an-electricity-powered-helicopter-developed-by-sikorsky.php","title":{"rendered":"Firefly is an electricity powered helicopter developed by Sikorsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress-1190801-4202256.cloudwaysapps.com\/entry_images\/0710\/27\/electricity-powered-helicopter-1.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"electricity-powered-helicopter-1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress-1190801-4202256.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/electricity-powered-helicopter-1-thumb-450x338.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\"\/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\nElectric power has never appealed much to the folks who build helicopters, until now. This has probably been so due to the weight issues the batteries involved have been facing, taken that they\u2019re too heavy to enable a safe flight. Well, things are changing, and helicopters of the future could be as green as a leaf, with electric power. Sikorsky has proved that the helicopter, following a stringent set of designs since the last 50 years, can also use electricity. The Firefly as they choose to call it, is based on a S-300C trainer, with the 190-hp 4 cylinder gas engine ripped out to make way for an electric motor coupled with lithium-ion batteries.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nNow don\u2019t go dreaming about flying in one of these in the near future. The battery lasts just 15 minutes, which is indeed really low. The helicopter probably wouldn\u2019t travel a few feet in that. But then again, this is the start to a revolution in the aviation world.<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"electricity-powered-helicopter-2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress-1190801-4202256.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/electricity-powered-helicopter-2.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\"\/><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress-1190801-4202256.cloudwaysapps.com\/entry_images\/0710\/27\/electricity-powered-helicopter-3.php\" onclick=\"window.open(&#039;https:\/\/wordpress-1190801-4202256.cloudwaysapps.com\/entry_images\/0710\/27\/electricity-powered-helicopter-3.php&#039;,&#039;popup&#039;,&#039;width=600,height=335,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#039;); return false\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress-1190801-4202256.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/electricity-powered-helicopter-3-thumb-450x251.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"251\" alt=\"electricity-powered-helicopter-3.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/dvice.com\/archives\/2010\/07\/sikorsky.php\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\">Dvice<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric power has never appealed much to the folks who build helicopters, until now. This has probably been so due to the weight issues the batteries involved have been facing, taken that they\u2019re too heavy to enable a safe flight. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/greenlaunches.com\/transport\/firefly-is-an-electricity-powered-helicopter-developed-by-sikorsky.php\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Continue reading3 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1919,2128],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Firefly is an electricity powered helicopter developed by Sikorsky -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/greenlaunches.com\/transport\/firefly-is-an-electricity-powered-helicopter-developed-by-sikorsky.php\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Firefly is an electricity powered helicopter developed by Sikorsky -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Electric power has never appealed much to the folks who build helicopters, until now. 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