{"id":8249,"date":"2013-09-11T10:07:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T17:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/?p=8249"},"modified":"2013-09-11T10:08:50","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T17:08:50","slug":"eurosport-crossover-first-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/eurosport-crossover-first-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurosport Crossover First Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Leite of Portugal&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/eurosportaircraft.com\/\">Eurosport Aircraft<\/a> shares this first test flight video for his firm&#8217;s Crossover, a Light Sport Aircraft that can extend its wings to become a sailplane, or bring them in to become a cruiser. \u00a0Its twin motors can be tucked into the sides of the aircraft, its retractable gear allows further slimming, and its multiply-slatted Fowler-type flaps allow quick takeoffs and slow landings. \u00a0This type of advanced thinking is complimented by the craft&#8217;s electric power &#8211; perhaps a sign of things to come in the light aircraft arena.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Apresenta\u00e7\u00e3o Eurosportaircraft Crossover\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NADzFSD6I68?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From its<a href=\"https:\/\/pt-pt.facebook.com\/Eurosportaircraft?filter=2\"> Facebook<\/a> following, the Crossover seems to attract crowds wherever it goes.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8250\" style=\"width: 538px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/eurosport-crossover-at-blois.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8250\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8250\" alt=\"Eurosport Crossover at Blois, France flyin\" src=\"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/eurosport-crossover-at-blois-528x296.jpg\" width=\"528\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/eurosport-crossover-at-blois-528x296.jpg 528w, http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/eurosport-crossover-at-blois-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/eurosport-crossover-at-blois.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eurosport Crossover at Blois, France fly-in<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"facebook_like\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fcafe.foundation%2Fblog%2Feurosport-crossover-first-flights%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=500&amp;action=like&amp;font=segoe+ui&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:500px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Leite of Portugal&#8217;s Eurosport Aircraft shares this first test flight video for his firm&#8217;s Crossover, a Light Sport Aircraft that can extend its wings to become a sailplane, or bring them in to become a cruiser. \u00a0Its twin motors can be tucked into the sides of the aircraft, its retractable gear allows further slimming, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[4155,3529,2574,4157,4158,4156,4154,3531],"class_list":["post-8249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-electric_powerplants","category-sustainable_ga","tag-blois-france-flyin","tag-eurosport-crossover","tag-fowler-flaps","tag-portugal","tag-retractable-landing-gear","tag-retractable-motors","tag-test-flight","tag-tom-leite"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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