{"id":190312,"date":"2009-12-11T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/11\/the-fairy-dust-works\/"},"modified":"2009-12-11T10:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T15:56:00","slug":"the-fairy-dust-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/11\/the-fairy-dust-works\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fairy Dust Works*"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; width: 400px; float: right; text-align: center;\">Click images for full size<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><object height=\"3305\" width=\"376\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oX-kIUYRyDk&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oX-kIUYRyDk&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" height=\"305\" width=\"376\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/img51.imageshack.us\/img51\/8703\/6e0d4bbf0ab44c45b302cd4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img51.imageshack.us\/img51\/8703\/6e0d4bbf0ab44c45b302cd4.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img51.imageshack.us\/img51\/1044\/16086c080aa84244821ccad.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img51.imageshack.us\/img51\/1044\/16086c080aa84244821ccad.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img9.imageshack.us\/img9\/7343\/c57e81677179437894de2fd.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img9.imageshack.us\/img9\/7343\/c57e81677179437894de2fd.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Finally in the air<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The Airbus A400M has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;newspaperUserId=27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A0a908c16-23e9-4a5f-8382-f6712ebe9f9d&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest\">made its maiden flight maiden flight<\/a> at 10L15 am (GMT +1) today in Seville, Spain.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that they never retracted the gear (not surprising) , and I have no details of the flight plant, but here is some video and picture pr0n.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2009\/12\/11\/336083\/pictures.html\">most detailed report of the flight that I could find<\/a> says that the flight lasted for 3h 45m, and that the aircraft reached 800 ft and a speed of 230 kts, below the original goal of 300 kt, but sufficient speed to imply that the gear was raised for some portion of the flight.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">See <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/and-if-you-sprinkle-it-with-fairy-dust.html\">here<\/a> for reference.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click images for full size Finally in the air The Airbus A400M has made its maiden flight maiden flight at 10L15 am (GMT +1) today in Seville, Spain. It appears that they never retracted the gear (not surprising) , and I have no details of the flight plant, but here is some video and picture &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,984,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-europe","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}