{"id":190143,"date":"2025-03-24T19:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T09:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/jetzero-bwb-engine-guide\/"},"modified":"2025-03-24T19:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T09:00:13","slug":"why-jetzeros-blended-wing-plane-will-use-same-pratt-whitney-engine-as-the-boeing-757","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=190143","title":{"rendered":"Why JetZero&#8217;s Blended Wing Plane Will Use Same Pratt &amp; Whitney Engine As The Boeing 757"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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> has just <a href=\"https:\/\/20607413.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net\/hubfs\/20607413\/JetZero%20x%20RTX%20Press%20Release.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >announced<\/a> it has chosen the legacy Pratt &#038; Whitney PW2040 engine to         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2040845\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-soon-blended-wing-commercial-aircraft-fly\/\" >power its demonstrator that is planned to fly in 2027<\/a><\/span>. Ambitiously, JetZero plans for the blended-wing-body (BWB) aircraft (called the Z4) to enter commercial service in 2030, although it remains unclear what engine it will have then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legacy Boeing 757 engine has been selected to power the initial JetZero Z4 demonstrator, although the final production engine is unclear.<\/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":[396,7060,13240,13886,8787],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-blended-wing","category-commercial-aviation","category-jetzero","category-pratt-whitney"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190143","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=190143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190144,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190143\/revisions\/190144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}