{"id":11140,"date":"2015-05-08T11:45:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T18:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=11140"},"modified":"2016-08-12T08:18:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T15:18:47","slug":"flying-the-airplane-of-tomorrow-in-1948-popular-science-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2015\/05\/08\/flying-the-airplane-of-tomorrow-in-1948-popular-science-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying the Airplane of Tomorrow in 1948 Popular Science Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/PlaneOfTomorrow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11141\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/PlaneOfTomorrow.jpg\" alt=\"PlaneOfTomorrow\" width=\"650\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/PlaneOfTomorrow.jpg 650w, https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/PlaneOfTomorrow-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/PlaneOfTomorrow-580x315.jpg 580w, https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/PlaneOfTomorrow-624x339.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Northrop&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Northrop_YB-49\">Flying Wing<\/a> was a spectacular monoplane built in 1947. Apparently, people had visions of putting bars into these things and flying lots of comfortable passengers around. Too bad flying never became this luxurious at all. This promotional film from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Popular_Science_%28film%29\">Popular Science<\/a> series has some gorgeous make believe shots inside the aircraft.<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IE0tKalLsTU\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northrop&#8217;s Flying Wing was a spectacular monoplane built in 1947. Apparently, people had visions of putting bars into these things and flying lots of comfortable passengers around. Too bad flying never became this luxurious at all. This promotional film from the Popular Science series has some gorgeous make believe shots inside the aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1483,1314,1458,2379],"tags":[2444,2446,2445,2447],"class_list":["post-11140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1940s","category-documentary-film","category-short-films","category-vintage-film","tag-corporate-films","tag-flying-wing","tag-northrop","tag-popular-science"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11338,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11140\/revisions\/11338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}