{"id":57813,"date":"2017-05-31T19:42:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T02:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/stratolaunch-aircraft-with-wingspan-length-of-football-field-unveiled"},"modified":"2017-06-06T16:01:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T23:01:37","slug":"stratolaunch-aircraft-with-wingspan-length-of-football-field-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/stratolaunch-aircraft-with-wingspan-length-of-football-field-unveiled","title":{"rendered":"Stratolaunch aircraft with wingspan length of FOOTBALL FIELD unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stratolaunch-aircraft-with-wingspan-length-of-football-field-unveiled.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen unveiled the world\u2019s largest aircraft on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The massive plane rolled out by Allen\u2019s aerospace firm, Stratolaunch Systems, features the longest wingspan of any aircraft ever built, according to <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/flight\/a26715\/stratolaunch-rolls-out-of-hangar\/\">Popular Mechanics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With a wingspan of 385 feet, the six-engine plane will be larger than Howard Hughes\u2019 1947 H-4 Hercules, known as the \u2018Spruce Goose,\u2019 and the Antonov An-225, a Soviet-era cargo plane originally built to transport the Buran space shuttle that is currently the world\u2019s largest aircraft.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-4560772\/Aircraft-wingspan-length-FOOTBALL-FIELD-unveiled.html?ito=social-facebook\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-4560772\/Aircraft-win...l-facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen unveiled the world\u2019s largest aircraft on Wednesday. The massive plane rolled out by Allen\u2019s aerospace firm, Stratolaunch Systems, features the longest wingspan of any aircraft ever built, according to Popular Mechanics. With a wingspan of 385 feet, the six-engine plane will be larger than Howard Hughes\u2019 1947 H-4 Hercules, known as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57813","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57902,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57813\/revisions\/57902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}