{"id":435624,"date":"2026-05-23T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-x-29-backward-wings-worked-perfectly-never-used-again\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T06:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:00:19","slug":"why-the-x-29s-backward-wings-worked-perfectly-but-were-never-used-again-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=435624","title":{"rendered":"Why The X-29&#8217;s Backward Wings Worked Perfectly But Were Never Used Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2038146\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-have-experimental-x-planes-helped-advance-us-military-aviation\/\" >Grumman X-29 was the world&#8217;s first successful forward-swept wing experimental aircraft<\/a><\/span>. Germany built two prototype Junkers Ju 287 jet bombers in WWII, but the design was infeasible with the technology and materials of the era. The X-29 proved a valuable testbed for new technologies, and while it even over-delivered in some aspects, it did not validate forward-swept wings as feasible for a future fighter jet design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the X-29 successfully proved new technologies, it did not result in the development of forward-swept-wing fighter jets.<\/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":[396,10154,2691],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-grumman","category-wings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435624","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=435624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435626,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435624\/revisions\/435626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=435624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=435624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=435624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}