{"id":135969,"date":"2022-02-23T01:24:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T09:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/airliners-could-soon-fly-in-formation-just-like-a-flock-of-birds"},"modified":"2022-02-23T01:24:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T09:24:01","slug":"airliners-could-soon-fly-in-formation-just-like-a-flock-of-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/airliners-could-soon-fly-in-formation-just-like-a-flock-of-birds","title":{"rendered":"Airliners Could Soon Fly in Formation, Just Like a Flock of Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/airliners-could-soon-fly-in-formation-just-like-a-flock-of-birds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This makes too much sense not to try.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Could passenger planes begin flying in formation to draft each other\u2019s wingtip vortex effects? One Airbus-based startup concept thinks so. The concept uses a formation idea inspired by birds, who commute north to south and back in large V shapes to capitalize on the updraft generated by the birds in front.<\/p>\n<p>\u2708 You love badass planes. So do we. Let\u2019s nerd out over them together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This makes too much sense not to try. Could passenger planes begin flying in formation to draft each other\u2019s wingtip vortex effects? One Airbus-based startup concept thinks so. The concept uses a formation idea inspired by birds, who commute north to south and back in large V shapes to capitalize on the updraft generated by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135969","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}