{"id":23606,"date":"2026-03-03T13:08:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=23606"},"modified":"2026-03-03T13:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:09:14","slug":"weird-wings-a-five-engined-747","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/03\/weird-wings-a-five-engined-747\/","title":{"rendered":"Weird wings: A five-engined 747"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Engine Engine, Number Five&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had no idea that the ol&#8217; girl had it in (er, on) her\u2014but this is too odd &amp; thus interesting not to pass along:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Engine5.webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Engine5-768x1024.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Engine5-768x1024.webp 768w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Engine5-225x300.webp 225w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Engine5.webp 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Fifth Pod: A Behind the Scenes Look\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HWfA3I_cALs?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, speaking of odd: Having just visited the <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/ipThPydPLUor4kkHA\">Mojave aircraft boneyard (see pics)<\/a> and Spaceport, from which the weird creations of Burt Rutan &amp; co. operate, I couldn&#8217;t resist trying this silliness:<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I asked Nano Banana to imagine legendary aircraft designer Burt Rutan rocking the sort of canard wings he loves including on planes.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2026 made some attempts. \ud83d\ude42 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VCq1H6ldzU\">pic.twitter.com\/VCq1H6ldzU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Nack (@jnack) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jnack\/status\/2025406919343804819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engine Engine, Number Five&#8230; I had no idea that the ol&#8217; girl had it in (er, on) her\u2014but this is too odd &amp; thus interesting not to pass along: Meanwhile, speaking of odd: Having just visited the Mojave aircraft boneyard (see pics) and Spaceport, from which the weird creations of Burt Rutan &amp; co. operate, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23606"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23631,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23606\/revisions\/23631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}