{"id":336894,"date":"2020-02-11T12:02:36","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T06:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=336894"},"modified":"2020-02-11T12:38:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T07:08:33","slug":"airbus-unveils-new-falcon-like-jet-and-it-looks-straight-out-of-star-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airbus-unveils-new-falcon-like-jet-and-it-looks-straight-out-of-star-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbus unveils new falcon-like jet and it looks straight out of Star Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airbus SE unveiled a model of a sleek, falcon-like jet with rear-mounted twin engines that would look at home in the Star Wars movies.<\/p>\n<p>The two-meter demonstrator model, displayed at the Singapore Air Show on Tuesday, features a so-called blended-wing body that\u2019s designed to reduce fuel consumption.<\/p>\n<p>Airbus test-flew the model, which is dubbed Maveric, in June last year in France and will continue flights into the second quarter of 2020, the Toulouse-based planemaker said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need these demonstrators to evaluate the potential as viable and safe feature projects,&#8221; said Jean-Brice Dumont, executive vice president of engineering at Airbus. \u201cWe need these breakthroughs, these technologies to meet our environmental challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airbus SE unveiled a model of a sleek, falcon-like jet with rear-mounted twin engines that would look at home in the Star Wars movies. The two-meter demonstrator model, displayed at the Singapore Air Show on Tuesday, features a so-called blended-wing body that\u2019s designed to reduce fuel consumption. Airbus test-flew the model, which is dubbed Maveric, in June last year in France and will continue flights into the second quarter of 2020, the Toulouse-based planemaker said. \u201cWe need these demonstrators to evaluate the potential as viable and safe feature projects,&#8221; said Jean-Brice Dumont, executive vice president of engineering at Airbus. \u201cWe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}