{"id":139784,"date":"2024-10-14T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T01:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/aurora-boeing-next-x-plane-high-speed-blended-wing-stealth-aircraft-wont-need-runway\/"},"modified":"2024-10-14T11:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T01:00:12","slug":"aurora-boeings-next-x-plane-a-high-speed-blended-wing-stealth-transport-that-wont-need-a-runway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=139784","title":{"rendered":"Aurora &amp; Boeing&#8217;s Next X-Plane: A High-Speed Blended-Wing Stealth Transport That Won&#8217;t Need A Runway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airbus, JetZero, and             <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\/tag\/boeing\/\"  ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.simpleflyingimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/boeing-icon.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>Boeing&#8217;s<\/a><\/span> Aurora Flight Sciences are three companies working on developing             <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> designs for the next generation of commercial and military tanker\/transport fleets. Aurora is designing a demonstrator X-plane using fan-in-wing technology that will provide vertical lift for US airborne logistics without needing a prepared runway (        <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2027356\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boeing-aurora-flight-sciences-new-x-plane-design\/\" >the project was previously revealed earlier in the year<\/a><\/span>). This is a separate project from         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2033937\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/what-to-know-northrop-grumman-jetzero-future-blended-wing-aircraft\/\" >JetZero&#8217;s blended wing demonstrator intended as a military transport and refueling aircraft<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aurora&#8217;s X-Plane in development could prove revolutionary for Air Force logistics if the demonstrator proves successful.<\/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":[396,398,412,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-military","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\/139784","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=139784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139785,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139784\/revisions\/139785"}],"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=139784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}