{"id":135157,"date":"2022-02-03T09:46:43","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T17:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/nasas-x-48-aircraft-test-flights-promise-a-green-airliner-for-the-future"},"modified":"2022-02-03T09:46:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T17:46:43","slug":"nasas-x-48-aircraft-test-flights-promise-a-green-airliner-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/nasas-x-48-aircraft-test-flights-promise-a-green-airliner-for-the-future","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s X-48 Aircraft Test Flights Promise a \u2018Green Airliner\u2019 For the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-x-48-aircraft-test-flights-promise-a-green-airliner-for-the-future.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fewer CO2 emissions, more cargo space.<\/p>\n<p>California-based startup Natilus revealed a new unmanned aircraft that it believes will make air cargo more sustainable as well as cost-effective, a <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/aircraft\/natilus-freight-remotely-piloted-blended-wing-drone\/\">report from *NewAtlas<\/a>* reveals.<\/p>\n<p>The company designed a blended wing body aircraft, similar to <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/nasas-x-48-aircraft-test-flights-promise-a-green-airliner-for-the-future\">NASA\u2019s X-48 \u201cgreen airliner\u201d<\/a> concept, <a href=\"https:\/\/newsdirect.com\/news\/volatus-aerospace-secures-first-production-delivery-slot-for-natilus-large-remotely-piloted-cargo-drone-304581305\">which it says<\/a> allows it to offer \u201can estimated 60% more cargo volume than traditional aircraft of the same weight while reducing costs and carbon dioxide per pound by 50%.\u201d startup Natilus\u2019 new aircraft promise fewer CO2 emissions and more cargo space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fewer CO2 emissions, more cargo space. California-based startup Natilus revealed a new unmanned aircraft that it believes will make air cargo more sustainable as well as cost-effective, a report from *NewAtlas* reveals. The company designed a blended wing body aircraft, similar to NASA\u2019s X-48 \u201cgreen airliner\u201d concept, which it says allows it to offer \u201can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135157","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}