{"id":114888,"date":"2020-10-22T10:23:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T17:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/airbus-tests-bird-like-flapping-wings-for-its-future-aircraft"},"modified":"2020-10-22T10:23:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T17:23:32","slug":"airbus-tests-bird-like-flapping-wings-for-its-future-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/airbus-tests-bird-like-flapping-wings-for-its-future-aircraft","title":{"rendered":"Airbus Tests Bird-Like Flapping Wings For Its Future Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R9SRn5n7enQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The planes of the future may have flapping wings. \ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Is it a bird, is it a plane? Well, this new Airbus prototype aircraft is kind of both.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The plane manufacturer has unveiled a scale model aiplane that actually flaps its wings during flight. The model, named AlbatrossONE, has been going through various stages of testing since last year, and recently hit a new milestone by completing a successful \u2018gate-to-gate\u2019 proof of concept flight.<\/p>\n<p>While the AlbatrossONE fuselage looks more or less the same as the aircraft we\u2019re used to flying on, the model is equipped with longer-than-normal wings that are able to bend backwards and forwards at the tip, which Airbus says will allow for more efficient flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The planes of the future may have flapping wings. \ud83d\ude03 Is it a bird, is it a plane? Well, this new Airbus prototype aircraft is kind of both. The plane manufacturer has unveiled a scale model aiplane that actually flaps its wings during flight. The model, named AlbatrossONE, has been going through various stages of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}