{"id":2934,"date":"2013-07-15T14:49:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T18:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=2934"},"modified":"2013-07-15T17:07:59","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T21:07:59","slug":"quarter-million-dollar-flight-of-fancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/quarter-million-dollar-flight-of-fancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarter Million Dollar Flight of Fancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2937\" style=\"width: 185px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2937\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2937\" alt=\"Gossamer Wings\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/prize-winners-sm.jpg\" width=\"175\" height=\"117\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gossamer Wings<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto, Thursday, July 11, 2013.<\/strong> Thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/2013\/07\/11\/humanpowered_helicopter_created_by_toronto_team.html\"><em>Toronto Star<\/em><\/a> and various local television stations, my curiosity has been answered. Back on May 27, 2013 I discovered what looked like wings hanging from the rafters in the hall at the Soccer Centre. Judy Raulik, PHSC Treasurer mentioned them to me \u00a0during the show.<\/p>\n<p>The gossamer wings are propeller components of a man-powered helicopter that won the $250,000 Sikorsky prize for the first successful human powered craft. The prize was won by two Toronto U of T engineers Todd Reichert (31) and\u00a0Cameron Robertson (26) &#8211; neither was born when the prize was announced in 1980!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto, Thursday, July 11, 2013. Thanks to the Toronto Star and various local television stations, my curiosity has been answered. Back on May 27, 2013 I discovered what looked like wings hanging from the rafters in the hall at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/quarter-million-dollar-flight-of-fancy\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2934"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2939,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions\/2939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}