{"id":14277,"date":"2024-09-21T19:54:32","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T00:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=14277"},"modified":"2024-09-22T16:17:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T21:17:07","slug":"boeing-completes-uk-e-7-wedgetail-first-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=14277","title":{"rendered":"Boeing completes UK E-7 Wedgetail first flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Story and Image from Boeing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">Birmingham, England, United Kingdom<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">Sept. 20, 2024<\/span><\/span>, PRNewswire<\/strong> &#8211; Boeing (NYSE: BA) has completed the first flight of the UK&#8217;s E-7 Wedgetail for the Royal Air Force (RAF).<\/p>\n<p>A Boeing flight-test crew conducted functional checks during the first flight from Birmingham Airport, marking a significant milestone in the programme&#8217;s test and evaluation phase.<\/p>\n<p>Currently unpainted, the aircraft is one of three 737 NG aircraft on British soil undergoing modification by a highly skilled team of over 100 people at STS Aviation Services in <span class=\"xn-location\">Birmingham<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UK Wedgetail AEW1, Advanced Early Warning Aircraft with MESA Radar System #aircraft #unitedkingdom\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HuZ8mUSrTuM?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>Story and Image from Boeing Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, Sept. 20, 2024, PRNewswire &#8211; Boeing (NYSE: BA) has completed the first flight of the UK&#8217;s E-7 Wedgetail for the Royal Air Force (RAF). A Boeing flight-test crew conducted functional checks during the first flight from Birmingham Airport, marking a significant milestone in the programme&#8217;s test [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14277","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\/14277","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=14277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14279,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14277\/revisions\/14279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}