{"id":1991,"date":"2003-07-17T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2003-07-17T20:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=1991"},"modified":"2008-05-08T09:50:13","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T17:50:13","slug":"we-dont-need-no-stinking-thrust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/17\/we-dont-need-no-stinking-thrust\/","title":{"rendered":"We Don&#8217;t Need No Stinking Thrust!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just measured the static thrust of the Zagi by balancing it on my postal scale, nose down and cranking it up. It&#8217;s unbelievable. My skills have improved wildly in the last couple months, I&#8217;m able to control the plane much better than I could when I first set it up and the amount of thrust has&#8230;. get this&#8230;. decreased! I honestly, honestly thought that the motor had broken in and I was getting more thrust, aiding me in my quest for domination of the skies. But nope! A month or so ago, I was getting 12 oz. of thrust out of the motor. The Zagi website makes mention of getting 16 oz. of thrust&#8230; I&#8217;m getting only 9.5 oz of thrust. And I couldn&#8217;t be happier. That&#8217;s so strange!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just measured the static thrust of the Zagi by balancing it on my postal scale, nose down and cranking it up. It&#8217;s unbelievable. My skills have improved wildly in the last couple months, I&#8217;m able to control the plane much better than I could when I first set it up and the amount of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}