{"id":77945,"date":"2018-04-20T13:42:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T20:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/the-worlds-largest-plane-with-a-wingspan-bigger-than-a-football-pitch-is-preparing-to-take-off"},"modified":"2018-04-20T13:42:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T20:42:23","slug":"the-worlds-largest-plane-with-a-wingspan-bigger-than-a-football-pitch-is-preparing-to-take-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/the-worlds-largest-plane-with-a-wingspan-bigger-than-a-football-pitch-is-preparing-to-take-off","title":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s largest plane with a wingspan bigger than a football pitch is preparing to take off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worlds-largest-plane-with-a-wingspan-bigger-than-a-football-pitch-is-preparing-to-take-off2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The largest plane ever built \u2013 backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and his company Vulcan Aerospace \u2013 is set to take full flight for the first time within months.<\/p>\n<p>Known as Stratolaunch, the huge aircraft is so big that it requires two cockpits and six jet engines to take off.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft also has a wingspan of 385 feet, over a hundred more than the average football pitch.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/news-and-advice\/worlds-largest-plane-first-flight-mojave-desert-stratolaunch-aircraft-microsoft-paul-allen-a8313656.html\">https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/news-and-advice\/worlds-...13656.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest plane ever built \u2013 backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and his company Vulcan Aerospace \u2013 is set to take full flight for the first time within months. Known as Stratolaunch, the huge aircraft is so big that it requires two cockpits and six jet engines to take off. The aircraft also has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77945","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}