{"id":1171,"date":"2014-07-08T12:26:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T20:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2014-07-08T12:26:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T20:26:33","slug":"get-four-boeing-737s-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/get-four-boeing-737s-river\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Get Four Boeing 737s into a river?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/get-four-boeing-737s-river\/\" data-text=\"How Do You Get Four Boeing 737s into a river%3f\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>The answer to the age-old question &#8220;How do you get four Boeing 737s into a river?&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/outdoors\/recreation\/boating\/dont-worry-it-only-looks-like-the-apocalypse-16962568?click=pm_latest\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Why, throw them off a train, of course<\/a>. \u00a0I mean&#8230;duh. \u00a0Short story: on July 3rd, a train carrying Boeing 737 fuselages derailed near Missoula, Montana dumping three of the fuselages into the Clark Fork River. \u00a0The aircraft sections were enroute from Wichita, Kansas to Boeing&#8217;s assembly plant in Renton, Washington near Seattle. \u00a0The options for shipping something so large are few, and Spirit AeroSystems, the company that builds the fuselages for Boeing, says that they ship 42 fuselages <em>per month<\/em> this way. \u00a0By the way, the fuselage is the central &#8220;tube&#8221; section or cabin of the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>The Clark Fork River is popular with rafters, so imagine floating around a bend and seeing this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VUGGd4tPdP4\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported, and the cause is under investigation. \u00a0The train was traveling under the 35 mile per hour speed limit for that stretch of track.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet The answer to the age-old question &#8220;How do you get four Boeing 737s into a river?&#8221; \u00a0Why, throw them off a train, of course. \u00a0I mean&#8230;duh. \u00a0Short story: on July 3rd, a train carrying Boeing 737 fuselages derailed near Missoula, Montana dumping three of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1173,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}