{"id":3110,"date":"2010-09-23T05:48:29","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T09:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=3110"},"modified":"2010-09-23T09:47:38","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T13:47:38","slug":"the-snowbird-ornithopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/3110","title":{"rendered":"The Snowbird Ornithopter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seems like it wasn&#8217;t all that long ago when <em>any<\/em> kind of human-powered flight was a very ambitious goal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Snowbird Human-Powered Ornithopter was designed and constructed by a  team of students from the University of Toronto. On August 2nd 2010 it  sustained level flight for 19.3 seconds, becoming the world&#8217;s first  successful human-powered ornithopter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"500\" height=\"304\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0E77j1imdhQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">More info at <a href=\"http:\/\/hpo.ornithopter.net\/?q=content\/the-project\">hpo.ornithopter.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Via a tweet from @bruces.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems like it wasn&#8217;t all that long ago when any kind of human-powered flight was a very ambitious goal. The Snowbird Human-Powered Ornithopter was designed and constructed by a team of students from the University of Toronto. On August 2nd &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/3110\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[282],"class_list":["post-3110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-making-things","tag-ornithopter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-Oa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3110"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3130,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110\/revisions\/3130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}