{"id":269324,"date":"2019-04-16T07:11:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T07:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=269324"},"modified":"2019-04-16T07:11:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T07:11:24","slug":"worlds-largest-plane-makes-first-flight-over-california-here-are-the-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/worlds-largest-plane-makes-first-flight-over-california-here-are-the-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s largest plane makes first flight over California. Here are the photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s largest airplane \u2014 a Stratolaunch behemoth with two fuselages and six Boeing 747 engines \u2014 made its first test flight on Saturday in California.<\/p>\n<p>The mega jet carried out its maiden voyage over the Mojave desert.<\/p>\n<p>It is designed to carry into space, and drop, a rocket that would in turn ignite to deploy satellites.<\/p>\n<p>It is supposed to provide a more flexible way to deploy satellites than vertical takeoff rockets because this way all you need is a long runway for takeoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s largest airplane \u2014 a Stratolaunch behemoth with two fuselages and six Boeing 747 engines \u2014 made its first test flight on Saturday in California. The mega jet carried out its maiden voyage over the Mojave desert. It is designed to carry into space, and drop, a rocket that would in turn ignite to deploy satellites. It is supposed to provide a more flexible way to deploy satellites than vertical takeoff rockets because this way all you need is a long runway for takeoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}