{"id":2703,"date":"2008-08-18T08:06:20","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T05:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=2703"},"modified":"2012-08-01T10:56:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T07:56:59","slug":"tai-to-manufacture-turkeys-first-commercial-helicopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/08\/18\/tai-to-manufacture-turkeys-first-commercial-helicopter\/","title":{"rendered":"TAI To Manufacture Turkey&#8217;s First Commercial Helicopter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smlgrey\">Published: 8\/17\/2008<\/div>\n<p>ANKARA &#8211; Countdown has started for Turkey`s first commercial helicopter to be built by Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) that has become a global defense industry giant after manufacturing F-16 fighter jets.<\/p>\n<p>TAI plans to collaborate with national and international aerospace companies and projects to begin ground and flight tests once the prototype is completed in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey`s first commercial helicopters are planned to have a capacity to carry 6 or 8 passengers and weigh 2 tons, TAI officials said.<\/p>\n<p>TAI engineers have been working to produce fuselage and other parts of the prototype. Engineers will then manufacture avionics, engine, fuel tank and other related parts of the helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>(T\u00c7-UK)<\/p>\n<p>(GEN)<\/p>\n<p>Source: www.turkishpress.com, 17.08.2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published: 8\/17\/2008 ANKARA &#8211; Countdown has started for Turkey`s first commercial helicopter to be built by Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) that has become a global defense industry giant after manufacturing F-16 fighter jets. TAI plans to collaborate with national and international aerospace companies and projects to begin ground and flight tests once the prototype is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":62701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[4259],"class_list":["post-2703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-ataturk-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}