{"id":151016,"date":"2022-11-24T14:23:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T20:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/marvelous-engineering-of-voyager-the-aircraft-that-traveled-around-the-world-without-refueling"},"modified":"2022-11-24T14:23:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T20:23:28","slug":"marvelous-engineering-of-voyager-the-aircraft-that-traveled-around-the-world-without-refueling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/marvelous-engineering-of-voyager-the-aircraft-that-traveled-around-the-world-without-refueling","title":{"rendered":"Marvelous engineering of Voyager: The aircraft that traveled around the world without refueling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jyRGNcbeS7o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The flying fuel tank\u2019s flight \u201cwas arguably aviation\u2019s last milestone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 36 years ago, on December 23, 1986, pilots Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, designer Burt Rutan, and crew chief Bruce Evans earned the Collier Trophy, aviation\u2019s most prestigious award, according to a NASA report published in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>A 25,000-mile circumnavigation of the globe.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Contributed to NASA<\/p>\n<p>This was because their one-of-a-kind, purpose-built Voyager aircraft embarked on a non-stop, unrefueled flight around the world, setting a world record that remains unchallenged today.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/marvelous-engineering-of-voyager-the-aircraft-that-traveled-around-the-world-without-refueling\">Continue reading \u201cMarvelous engineering of Voyager: The aircraft that traveled around the world without refueling\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flying fuel tank\u2019s flight \u201cwas arguably aviation\u2019s last milestone.\u201d Nearly 36 years ago, on December 23, 1986, pilots Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, designer Burt Rutan, and crew chief Bruce Evans earned the Collier Trophy, aviation\u2019s most prestigious award, according to a NASA report published in 2013. A 25,000-mile circumnavigation of the globe. Contributed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}