{"id":131823,"date":"2024-09-22T17:20:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T07:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boeing-1st-flight-e-7-wedgetail\/"},"modified":"2024-09-22T17:20:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T07:20:29","slug":"boeing-completes-1st-flight-of-e-7-wedgetail-military-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=131823","title":{"rendered":"Boeing Completes 1st Flight Of E-7 Wedgetail Military Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60363\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boeing-videos\/\"  ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.simpleflyingimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/boeing-icon.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>Boeing<\/a><\/span> announced in a <a href=\"https:\/\/boeing.mediaroom.com\/2024-09-20-Boeing-Completes-First-Flight-of-UK-E-7-Wedgetail\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >press release<\/a> that it has just completed the first flight of the United Kingdom&#8217;s E-7 Wedgetail             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"682024\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>AWACS<\/span><\/span> aircraft destined for the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"257150\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/royal-air-force\/\"  >Royal Air Force<\/a><\/span>. The E-7 Wedgetail is also planned to be the United States Air Force&#8217;s partial replacement for the aging E-3 Sentry. The         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2030671\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boeing-us-air-force-contract-e-7a-wedgetail\/\" >US Air Force has recently awarded Boeing a $2.56 billion contract<\/a><\/span> for the rapid development of two prototype E-7s for the service. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing has completed the first test flight for the first RAF Wedgetail and will soon enter service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,11087,12468,120,1449],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aircraft","category-awacs","category-boeing-e-7-wedgetail","category-europe","category-raf"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131824,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131823\/revisions\/131824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}