{"id":209814,"date":"2025-03-26T18:05:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T23:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/outbound-aerospace-achieves-its-first-test-flight-and-attracts-more-funding-for-airplane-ambitions"},"modified":"2025-03-26T18:05:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T23:05:43","slug":"outbound-aerospace-achieves-its-first-test-flight-and-attracts-more-funding-for-airplane-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/outbound-aerospace-achieves-its-first-test-flight-and-attracts-more-funding-for-airplane-ambitions","title":{"rendered":"Outbound Aerospace achieves its first test flight and attracts more funding for airplane ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/outbound-aerospace-achieves-its-first-test-flight-and-attracts-more-funding-for-airplane-ambitions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Things are looking up for <a href=\"https:\/\/outbound.aero\/\">Outbound Aerospace\u2019s<\/a> quest to build a new kind of passenger airplane. The Seattle startup has raised $1.15 million in pre-seed funding so far, and last weekend it sent a small-scale prototype into the skies over Oregon for its first-ever flight test.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the last month, everything came together, and we went out there and got the plane up in the air, and proved that it flies,\u201d said Jake Armenta, the former Boeing engineer who serves as Outbound\u2019s chief technology officer and co-founder. \u201cSo, it\u2019s been a really exciting month or two.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrator aircraft \u2014 which is code-named STeVE (for <strong>S<\/strong>caled <strong>Te<\/strong>st <strong>Ve <\/strong>hicle) \u2014 is a remote-controlled plane that weighs 300 pounds and has a 22-foot wingspan. That\u2019s only one-eighth of the planned wingspan for the Olympic airliner that Outbound eventually aims to build. What\u2019s more, Saturday\u2019s flight at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pendletonuasrange.com\/\">Pendleton UAS Range<\/a> in eastern Oregon lasted just 16 seconds. Nevertheless, the test proved that Outbound\u2019s fabrication process could turn out a flyable carbon-fiber aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things are looking up for Outbound Aerospace\u2019s quest to build a new kind of passenger airplane. The Seattle startup has raised $1.15 million in pre-seed funding so far, and last weekend it sent a small-scale prototype into the skies over Oregon for its first-ever flight test. \u201cOver the last month, everything came together, and we [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209814","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}