{"id":17812,"date":"2012-10-20T08:11:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T15:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=7811"},"modified":"2012-10-20T08:11:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T15:11:54","slug":"human-powered-helicopters-are-hard-to-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/20\/human-powered-helicopters-are-hard-to-build\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Human-powered helicopters are hard to build&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NPR has put together interesting proof that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/10\/14\/160670295\/flight-club-human-powered-helicopter\">human-powered helicopters are hard to build<\/a>: Kottke <a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/12\/10\/human-powered-helicopters-are-hard-to-build\">writes<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A team at the University of Maryland are building a human-powered helicopter in an attempt to win the Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition. To win the $250,000 prize, the helicopter must fly for 60 seconds, reach a momentary altitude of 3 meters, and stay within a 10 meter square. This is surprisingly difficult.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d call it <em>unsurprisingly<\/em> difficult!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/51320244?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=a8a749\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR has put together interesting proof that\u00a0human-powered helicopters are hard to build: Kottke writes, A team at the University of Maryland are building a human-powered helicopter in an attempt to win the Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition. To win the $250,000 prize, the helicopter must fly for 60 seconds, reach a momentary altitude [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17812"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}