{"id":933,"date":"2006-03-22T01:29:27","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T09:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=933"},"modified":"2008-02-02T14:31:55","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T22:31:55","slug":"model-aviation-wowness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/22\/model-aviation-wowness\/","title":{"rendered":"Model Aviation Wowness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m starting to think about model aviation again. It&#8217;s been a long while. I had promised Ma&#8217;at that I&#8217;d get her in the air at Burning Man 2006. It still seems like a great challenge. There are two big challenges I can think of. First, finding the right plane to put her on. The Trick 1000 didn&#8217;t work very well for a few reasons. The second challenge is safety. I want to fly her over the heads of Burners at night. What I want to do is put her on a platform that can (in a worst case scenario) hit a person and have it not hurt. I&#8217;ve been hit by my Zagi a few times and the EPP foam and rear-mounted motor made the strike a non-issue. I think it&#8217;s possible to make a crash-safe plane but it&#8217;s going to take some effort to get such a plane to be able to carry the 12 oz payload of Ma&#8217;at and her batteries.<\/p>\n<p>My apartment is strewn with playa-dusty airplane parts as I begin to get things together. While I was looking online for some answers to my questions, I ran across an inspiring video. Give it a view and then tell me flying isn&#8217;t uplifting and beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcuniverse.com\/magazine\/article_display.cfm?article_id=304\">Article with video link<\/a>)<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/media.scaleaerobatics.com\/videos\/tas2003\/Mark-Leseberg_TAS2003.wmv\">Video link<\/a>),  Mark Leseberg at Tucson Shootout 2003.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Mark-Leseberg_TAS2003.wmv\">local version<\/a>) (26megabytes)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/mark-video.jpg\" alt=\"mark-video.jpg\" class=\"imageframe\" height=\"301\" width=\"449\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m starting to think about model aviation again. It&#8217;s been a long while. I had promised Ma&#8217;at that I&#8217;d get her in the air at Burning Man 2006. It still seems like a great challenge. There are two big challenges I can think of. First, finding the right plane to put her on. The Trick [&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-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","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=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}