{"id":413842,"date":"2026-04-26T07:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T21:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/doomsday-ex-passenger-boeing-747-8-tests-flights-ahead-air-force-delivery\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T07:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T21:12:08","slug":"new-doomsday-ex-passenger-boeing-747-8-continues-test-flights-ahead-of-air-force-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=413842","title":{"rendered":"New Doomsday: Ex-Passenger Boeing 747-8 Continues Test Flights Ahead Of Air Force Delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The future of the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/inside-us-air-force-doomsday-plane\/\" >Survivable Airborne Operations Center<\/a> (SAOC) has begun its flight and ground testing, with the risk reduction testing crucial to ensure the on-time delivery of this state-of-the-art aircraft to 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>. The SAOC is an aircraft that is trusted by the President and other security leaders to support critical airborne command, control, and communication in the event of national emergencies, sometimes dubbed doomsday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mysterious Boeing 747-8, once a passenger jet, has been spotted taking to the skies above Dayton, Ohio, as it undergoes crucial test flights.<\/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":[1258,396,1015,876,16569,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-aircraft","category-boeing-747-200","category-boeing-747-8","category-manufacturers","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\/413842","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=413842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413845,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413842\/revisions\/413845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=413842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=413842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=413842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}