{"id":50,"date":"2007-04-23T14:36:30","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T21:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/23\/gws-formosa-maiden-flight\/"},"modified":"2019-08-12T07:16:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T13:16:23","slug":"gws-formosa-maiden-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/23\/gws-formosa-maiden-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"GWS Formosa Maiden Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the maiden flight of my new GWS Formosa, which I have now dubbed &#8220;The Rocket.&#8221; This plane flies fast and rolls fast. It rolls faster than the frame rate of my camera, so you can barely tell when it&#8217;s rolling. I would estimate it can do about 3-4 rolls per second. My first flight was a crash because I attempted a loop right out of the gate, and lost control. Oops. Second flight was beautiful, with a picture perfect landing. The third flight I played with some inverted flight, and I lost my orientation. I was about two mistakes high, but I lost orientation twice, and crashed hard. My packing tape held up great! The fuselage is cracked in 4 places around the battery box, but it&#8217;s still in one piece. With some epoxy and a bit of plywood reinforcement, it&#8217;ll be back in the air in no time.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quick video of my third flight. You can see some rapid rolls and inverted flight. About 5 seconds after the video stopped rolling, I ate the dirt. Enjoy:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ol117H2sK2k\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ol117H2sK2k\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the maiden flight of my new GWS Formosa, which I have now dubbed &#8220;The Rocket.&#8221; This plane flies fast and rolls fast. It rolls faster than the frame rate of my camera, so you can barely tell when it&#8217;s rolling. I would estimate it can do about 3-4 rolls per second. My first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1593,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}