{"id":164813,"date":"2025-01-07T19:38:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T09:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/jetzero-blended-wing-pathfinder-us-air-force-advances-fly-by-2027\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T19:38:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T09:38:24","slug":"jetzeros-blended-wing-pathfinder-for-the-us-air-force-advances-to-fly-by-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=164813","title":{"rendered":"JetZero&#8217;s Blended Wing &#8220;Pathfinder&#8221; For The US Air Force Advances To Fly By 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 3, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airandspaceforces.com\/air-force-subscale-model-blended-wing-body\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Air &#038; Space Forces Magazine broke the news<\/a> that             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"765607\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>JetZero<\/span><\/span> \u2013 one of the contenders for the United States Air Force\u2019s (USAF\u2019s) Next Generation Air Refueling System (NGAS) of             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"265048\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/aerial-refueling\/\"  >aerial refueling<\/a><\/span> \u2013 is making substantial progress towards a flying prototype. Although JetZero did not respond to Simple Flying inquiries by press time, it is safe to say that USAF and JetZero are teaming up to push forward a Blended Wing Body design similar to the X-48.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JetZero is working on a Pathfinder to the USAF using Blended Wing Bodies.<\/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":[4259,396,595,7060,398,13886,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerial-refueling","category-aircraft","category-aviation-news","category-blended-wing","category-boeing","category-jetzero","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164813","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=164813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164814,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164813\/revisions\/164814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}