{"id":14648,"date":"2003-08-13T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-13T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/13\/model-airplane-makes-transatlantic-flight\/"},"modified":"2003-08-13T12:24:00","modified_gmt":"2003-08-13T12:24:00","slug":"model-airplane-makes-transatlantic-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/13\/model-airplane-makes-transatlantic-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Model Airplane Makes Transatlantic Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/3145577.stm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Spirit of Butts Farm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/spiritofbuttsfarm.jpg\" \/><\/a>The <i>BBC<\/i> reports that &ldquo;an international team of model aeroplane enthusiasts say they have managed the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/3145577.stm\" target=\"_blank\">first successful flight by a lightweight remote-controlled plane across the Atlantic<\/a>,&rdquo; flying a &ldquo;balsa wood and mylar plane &hellip; 3,039 kilometres (1,888 miles) using satellite navigation and an autopilot system overseen by engineers and radio operators using laptop computers.&rdquo;  The aircraft, known as <i>The Spirit of Butts Farm<\/i> after its testing site, was in the air for 38 hours, taking off from Canada and landing in Ireland.  Congratulations are in order for this very cool achievement!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-106077746283189861?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC reports that &ldquo;an international team of model aeroplane enthusiasts say they have managed the first successful flight by a lightweight remote-controlled plane across the Atlantic,&rdquo; flying a &ldquo;balsa wood and mylar plane &hellip; 3,039 kilometres (1,888 miles) using satellite navigation and an autopilot system overseen by engineers and radio operators using laptop computers.&rdquo; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/13\/model-airplane-makes-transatlantic-flight\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Model Airplane Makes Transatlantic Flight&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}