{"id":81925,"date":"2018-08-20T12:02:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T19:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/385-feet-of-crazy-the-most-audacious-flying-machine-ever"},"modified":"2018-08-20T12:02:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T19:02:23","slug":"385-feet-of-crazy-the-most-audacious-flying-machine-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/385-feet-of-crazy-the-most-audacious-flying-machine-ever","title":{"rendered":"385 Feet of Crazy: The Most Audacious Flying Machine Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/385-feet-of-crazy-the-most-audacious-flying-machine-ever.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alt-aviation wizard Burt Rutan set out to design a plane that could haul rockets to the edge of space. Then he persuaded Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen to build a dual-fuselage beast with a wingspan longer than a football field.<\/p>\n<p>Author: Steven Levy BY <a class=\"\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"presentation\" rel=\"author\" to=\"\/author\/steven-levy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/author\/steven-levy\">Steven Levy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/stratolaunch-airplane-burt-rutan-paul-allen\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/stratolaunch-airplane-burt-rutan-paul-allen\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alt-aviation wizard Burt Rutan set out to design a plane that could haul rockets to the edge of space. Then he persuaded Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen to build a dual-fuselage beast with a wingspan longer than a football field. Author: Steven Levy BY Steven Levy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81925","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}