{"id":10026,"date":"2010-02-24T17:06:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T17:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/24\/boomerang-rutans-asymmetrical-twin\/"},"modified":"2010-02-24T17:06:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T17:06:02","slug":"boomerang-rutans-asymmetrical-twin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/24\/boomerang-rutans-asymmetrical-twin\/","title":{"rendered":"Boomerang!: Rutan&#8217;s Asymmetrical Twin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/transportation\/1289166.html'>Boomerang!: Rutan&#8217;s Asymmetrical Twin<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rutan's Boomerang\" src=\"http:\/\/media.popularmechanics.com\/images\/tb_9611STTRAA.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Popular Mechanics<\/i> has a feature on Scaled Composites&rsquo; latest aircraft: the Boomerang, a Burt Rutan design whose assymetry belies its stability and performance.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is a lot that just doesn&rsquo;t look right about  Burt Rutan&rsquo;s 5-passenger Boomerang, the latest surprise to roll out of  the hangar at Scaled Composites. The 30.7-ft.-long plane is a twin, but  it looks more like a trimotor that lost its right boom and engine&hellip;With the Boomerang, I wanted to put many of the  design ideas I&rsquo;ve accumulated in the past 25 years into one plane.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boomerang!: Rutan&#8217;s Asymmetrical Twin Popular Mechanics has a feature on Scaled Composites&rsquo; latest aircraft: the Boomerang, a Burt Rutan design whose assymetry belies its stability and performance. There is a lot that just doesn&rsquo;t look right about Burt Rutan&rsquo;s 5-passenger Boomerang, the latest surprise to roll out of the hangar at Scaled Composites. The 30.7-ft.-long &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/24\/boomerang-rutans-asymmetrical-twin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Boomerang!: Rutan&#8217;s Asymmetrical Twin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}