{"id":8956,"date":"2015-04-17T11:49:03","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T11:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchpro.wpengine.com\/2015\/04\/17\/travolta-co-stars-with-pioneering-1960s-x-15-jet\/"},"modified":"2015-04-17T11:49:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T11:49:03","slug":"travolta-co-stars-with-pioneering-1960s-x-15-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/travolta-co-stars-with-pioneering-1960s-x-15-jet\/","title":{"rendered":"Travolta co-stars with pioneering 1960s X-15 jet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hollywood icon John Travolta has clocked up over a decade as a brand ambassador for Breitling, in part because of the shared passion for aviation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Breitling&rsquo;s 2015 advertising, Travolta is pictured alongside another flying legend, the North American X-15, which was lent to the brand by the US Air Force Flight Test Museum<\/p>\n<p>During the 1960s, this experimental rocket-plane made nearly 200 flights, pushing the limits of aeronautics and opening the door to space, notably by setting two historical records: one for altitude in 1963, at 107,960 m, and the other for speed, at 7274 km\/h (Mach 6.7).<\/p>\n<p>The photos for this new visual co-starring Travolta and the legendary X-15 were shot in California, on the runway of the famous Mojave Air and Space Port.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They are a vivid tribute to the conquest of the skies, a grand adventure with which Breitling is closely linked through its reliable, accurate and innovative instruments,&rdquo; says Breitling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood icon John Travolta has clocked up over a decade as a brand ambassador for Breitling, in part because of the shared passion for aviation. In Breitling&rsquo;s 2015 advertising, Travolta is pictured alongside another flying legend, the North American X-15, which was lent to the brand by the US Air Force Flight Test Museum During [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false},"categories":[2,1,3],"tags":[99,1636,3577,3580,1476,2184,564,229,1900,47],"newspack_lstngs_evt":[],"newspack_lstngs_gen":[],"newspack_lstngs_mkt":[],"newspack_lstngs_plc":[],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"WATCHPRO","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8956"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_evt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_evt?post=8956"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_gen","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_gen?post=8956"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_mkt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_mkt?post=8956"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_plc","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_plc?post=8956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}