{"id":155606,"date":"2023-01-16T22:22:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T04:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/how-the-radical-fuel-efficient-flying-v-airplane-could-replace-jumbo-jets"},"modified":"2023-01-16T22:22:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T04:22:17","slug":"how-the-radical-fuel-efficient-flying-v-airplane-could-replace-jumbo-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/how-the-radical-fuel-efficient-flying-v-airplane-could-replace-jumbo-jets","title":{"rendered":"How the Radical, Fuel-Efficient \u2018Flying V\u2019 Airplane Could Replace Jumbo Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-the-radical-fuel-efficient-flying-v-airplane-could-replace-jumbo-jets.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I remember when this was a guitar.<\/p>\n<p>The Flying-V, an experimental aircraft that promises significantly greater fuel efficiency over more conventional commercial jet designs, is moving towards a larger, more detailed version since the scaled, 10-foot model took flight in 2020 in Germany.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The 315-passenger jet flies like other commercial airliners its size, according to recent tests, but is 20 percent more fuel efficient. Plus, it just looks a lot cooler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember when this was a guitar. The Flying-V, an experimental aircraft that promises significantly greater fuel efficiency over more conventional commercial jet designs, is moving towards a larger, more detailed version since the scaled, 10-foot model took flight in 2020 in Germany. The 315-passenger jet flies like other commercial airliners its size, according to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155606","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}