{"id":14259,"date":"2024-08-26T22:54:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T03:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=14259"},"modified":"2024-08-26T23:16:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T04:16:12","slug":"boom-supersonic-xb-1-completes-second-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=14259","title":{"rendered":"Boom Supersonic XB-1 completes second flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mojave Desert, California, August 26, 2024 Press release<\/strong> &#8211; Today, XB-1 successfully completed its second flight at the Mojave Air &amp; Space Port in Mojave, California with Chief Test Pilot Tristan \u201cGeppetto\u201d Brandenburg at the controls. The landing gear was retracted and extended for the first time. The XB-1 team also assessed aircraft handling qualities, and demonstrated a new stability augmentation system, or roll damper.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Full Video: XB-1 Second Flight\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MLEg8qR0j64?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"United goes supersonic | Boom Supersonic\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xcaqYcdhbIg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mojave Desert, California, August 26, 2024 Press release &#8211; Today, XB-1 successfully completed its second flight at the Mojave Air &amp; Space Port in Mojave, California with Chief Test Pilot Tristan \u201cGeppetto\u201d Brandenburg at the controls. The landing gear was retracted and extended for the first time. The XB-1 team also assessed aircraft handling qualities, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14259"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14262,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14259\/revisions\/14262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}