{"id":139475,"date":"2024-10-13T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T03:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/what-to-know-northrop-grumman-jetzero-future-blended-wing-aircraft\/"},"modified":"2024-10-13T13:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T03:00:12","slug":"what-to-know-about-the-northrop-grumman-jetzero-future-blended-wing-aircraft-for-the-usaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=139475","title":{"rendered":"What To Know About The Northrop Grumman &amp; JetZero Future Blended Wing Aircraft For The USAF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago,         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2013565\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/net-zero-concept-aircraft-front-runners\/\" >Airbus released three concepts for zero-emission commercial aircraft<\/a><\/span>one of these is             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256171\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/blended-wing\/\"  >blended wing<\/a><\/span> bodied aircraft (BWB). However, the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> thinks the BWB concept could also have military applications &#8211; and the benefits could be transformative. Blended-wing aircraft are not the only revolutionary military transport design currently in the works;         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2027792\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-takes-second-shot-at-ekranoplan-liberty-lifter\/\" >the DARPA is working on a ground-effect vehicle (ekranoplan) called the Liberty Lifter<\/a><\/span>, which would burr the distinction between a ship and an aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blended-wing aircraft promises a major leap in future US Air Force transport and refueling capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"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":[396,7060,567,13886,915,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-blended-wing","category-guides","category-jetzero","category-northrop-grumman","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139475","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=139475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139476,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139475\/revisions\/139476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}