{"id":9346,"date":"2011-02-07T00:30:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T05:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=9346"},"modified":"2011-02-06T21:35:48","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T02:35:48","slug":"x-47b-takes-off-on-successful-first-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/07\/x-47b-takes-off-on-successful-first-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"X-47B Takes Off on Successful First Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The X-47B (<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/21\/x-47b-ucav-preparing-for-first-flight\/\">previously noted<\/a>) executed a successful first flight at Edwards AFB, California last week.<\/p>\n<p>The X-47 is a Navy\/Northrop technology demonstrator intended to test (and demonstrate) the ability of an unmanned aircraft to land on an aircraft carrier.\u00a0 The aircraft somewhat resembles a miniature B-2, and is ultimately intended to portend the UCAV, or Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle &#8212; the ability to conduct autonomous deep strike missions.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Navy Times<\/em> has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/2011\/02\/navy-x-47b-debut-flight-a-success-northrop-grumman-says-020511w\/\">article and a video<\/a> of the flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The X-47B (previously noted) executed a successful first flight at Edwards AFB, California last week. The X-47 is a Navy\/Northrop technology demonstrator intended to test (and demonstrate) the ability of an unmanned aircraft to land on an aircraft carrier.\u00a0 The aircraft somewhat resembles a miniature B-2, and is ultimately intended to portend the UCAV, or Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle &#8212; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13,5285,36,53,845,1434],"class_list":["post-9346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-navy","tag-uav","tag-ucav","tag-x-47"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}