{"id":5276,"date":"2012-03-04T17:00:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T17:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/04\/choppers-blades-give-off-a-ring-of-light-by\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T00:40:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T00:40:22","slug":"choppers-blades-give-off-a-ring-of-light-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/04\/choppers-blades-give-off-a-ring-of-light-by\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-5276 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/04\/choppers-blades-give-off-a-ring-of-light-by\/attachment\/5277\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/tumblr_m06shxHqlH1qzxaqho1_500-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/tumblr_m06shxHqlH1qzxaqho1_500-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/tumblr_m06shxHqlH1qzxaqho1_500-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Chopper&rsquo;s Blades Give Off a Ring of Light (by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idfonline\/6777152390\/\" target=\"_blank\">Israel Defense Forces<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the halo effect is from &ldquo;oxidation of eroded sand particles as they strike metal abrasion protection strips usually added to composite rotor blades in dusty conditions.&rdquo; \u00a0Pretty cool&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>[via <em><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5887993\/a-helicopters-blades-transform-into-shimmering-halo\" target=\"_blank\">Gizmodo<\/a><\/em>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chopper&rsquo;s Blades Give Off a Ring of Light (by Israel Defense Forces) Apparently the halo effect is from &ldquo;oxidation of eroded sand particles as they strike metal abrasion protection strips usually added to composite rotor blades in dusty conditions.&rdquo; \u00a0Pretty cool&hellip; [via Gizmodo]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276","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=5276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5278,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276\/revisions\/5278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}