{"id":1004,"date":"2007-10-07T14:32:01","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T04:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2007-10-07T14:32:01","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T04:32:01","slug":"leonardos-helicopter-flying-model-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1004","title":{"rendered":"Leonardo&#8217;s helicopter &#8211; flying model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago I built a flying model of Leonardo&#8217;s helicopter &#8211; so many people said it would never fly, but I had read that the original was based on a flying toy, and proceeded on that basis to make a toy using technology available in teh Renaissance period to make a flying model of Leonardo&#8217;s helicopter. And it worked (ok not very well, but it did work). You can see the results here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"353\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AbzKL7KpoVw&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AbzKL7KpoVw&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"353\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I have put <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lostbiro.com\/Wood\/LeonardoHelicopter.html\"><strong>full instructions on how to make it<\/strong> <\/a>on my web site (just follow the link).<\/p>\n<p>You can buy commercial models, such as from Gakken in Japan, but I think it&#8217;s more interesting and fun to build your own at a fraction of the price \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago I built a flying model of Leonardo&#8217;s helicopter &#8211; so many people said it would never fly, but I had read that the original was based on a flying toy, and proceeded on that basis to make a toy using technology available in teh Renaissance period to make a flying model of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy","category-journal","category-woodwork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}