{"id":89502,"date":"2019-04-13T13:02:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T20:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/the-worlds-largest-plane-just-flew-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2019-04-13T13:02:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T20:02:24","slug":"the-worlds-largest-plane-just-flew-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/the-worlds-largest-plane-just-flew-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s largest plane just flew for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worlds-largest-plane-just-flew-for-the-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After years of development in the desert north of Los Angeles, a gigantic, six-engined mega jet with the wingspan of an American football field flew Saturday morning for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe finally did it,\u201d said Stratolaunch Systems CEO Jean Floyd at a news conference from the hangar at Mojave Air &amp; Space Port. \u201cIt was an emotional moment to watch this bird take flight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stratolaunch, the company founded in 2011 by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, conducted the first test flight of the world\u2019s largest plane.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/04\/13\/business\/stratolaunch-worlds-largest-plane\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of development in the desert north of Los Angeles, a gigantic, six-engined mega jet with the wingspan of an American football field flew Saturday morning for the first time. \u201cWe finally did it,\u201d said Stratolaunch Systems CEO Jean Floyd at a news conference from the hangar at Mojave Air &amp; Space Port. \u201cIt [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89502","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\/517"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}