{"id":240731,"date":"2026-07-13T13:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/pioneers-of-aeronautical-engineering-dale-reed-father-of-the-lifting-bodies"},"modified":"2026-07-13T13:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:13:15","slug":"pioneers-of-aeronautical-engineering-dale-reed-father-of-the-lifting-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/pioneers-of-aeronautical-engineering-dale-reed-father-of-the-lifting-bodies","title":{"rendered":"Pioneers of Aeronautical Engineering: Dale Reed \u2014 Father of the Lifting Bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pioneers-of-aeronautical-engineering-dale-reed-father-of-the-lifting-bodies.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dale Reed transformed aerospace research through his pioneering work on lifting bodies and remotely piloted research vehicles. His innovations laid the foundation for the Space Shuttle\u2019s design and advanced unmanned flight testing, making him one of NASA\u2019s most influential flight research engineers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dale Reed transformed aerospace research through his pioneering work on lifting bodies and remotely piloted research vehicles. His innovations laid the foundation for the Space Shuttle\u2019s design and advanced unmanned flight testing, making him one of NASA\u2019s most influential flight research engineers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240731","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=240731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}