{"id":153664,"date":"2024-12-02T04:39:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T18:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-2-boeing-747s-stripped-to-build-stratolaunch\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T04:39:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T18:39:10","slug":"how-2-boeing-747s-were-stripped-down-to-build-the-massive-stratolaunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=153664","title":{"rendered":"How 2 Boeing 747s Were Stripped Down To Build The Massive Stratolaunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scales Composites&#8217; (a subsidiary of             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"258182\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/northrop-grumman\/\"  >Northrop Grumman<\/a><\/span>) Model 351 Stratolaunch (called &#8220;Roc&#8221;) is a one-of-a-kind aircraft built as a mobile launch system. The         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2022074\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/airplane-with-largest-wingspan-guide\/\" >aircraft has one wing and two otherwise unconnected fuselages with two cockpits<\/a><\/span>. Everything about this aircraft is remarkable, including that it was partly built from two stripped-down ex-United Airlines             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739374\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/747-400\/\"  >Boeing 747-400s<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stratolaunch or Roc has been built from as many existing Boeing 747-400 and other aircraft components as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,1017,1880,567,5214,915,5213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing-747-400","category-experimental-planes","category-guides","category-hypersonic","category-northrop-grumman","category-stratolaunch"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153665,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153664\/revisions\/153665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}