{"id":8502,"date":"2019-04-15T07:33:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T14:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=8502"},"modified":"2019-04-14T13:34:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T20:34:16","slug":"the-worlds-largest-airplane-takes-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/15\/the-worlds-largest-airplane-takes-off\/","title":{"rendered":"The world&#8217;s largest airplane takes off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They finally made it! This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/transportation\/2019\/4\/13\/18309129\/stratolaunch-worlds-biggest-airplane-first-flight-rockets?_lrsc=74cdab5d-3792-4b83-900a-30f20a00ace5\">500,000-lb. beast<\/a> is designed to carry rockets to 35,000ft., then drop-launch them into orbit.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VFHAz4AG-no?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In partnership with Scaled Composites, Stratolaunch successfully completed the first flight of the Stratolaunch aircraft. As part of this initial flight of the world&#8217;s largest aircraft, the pilots evaluated aircraft performance and handling qualities of the all-composite, duel-fuselage design. The airplane took off at 0658 PDT on April 13, 2019, from the Mojave Air &amp; Space Port, and flew for 2.5 hours, achieving a maximum speed of 189 miles per hour and reaching altitudes of up to 17,000 feet. The plane landed safely amid cheers from the team that designed and built the plane.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VFHAz4AG-no\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They finally made it! This 500,000-lb. beast is designed to carry rockets to 35,000ft., then drop-launch them into orbit. In partnership with Scaled Composites, Stratolaunch successfully completed the first flight of the Stratolaunch aircraft. As part of this initial flight of the world&#8217;s largest aircraft, the pilots evaluated aircraft performance and handling qualities of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8529,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502\/revisions\/8529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}