{"id":1213,"date":"2009-06-17T10:26:54","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T15:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2009-06-17T20:39:37","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T01:39:37","slug":"the-helicopter-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1213","title":{"rendered":"The helicopter is HERE&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/2009SEGames\/20090617_001.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/media\/2009SEGames\/tn_20090617_001.jpg\"  \/><\/a>The helicopter arrived this morning, on time (early, even).\u00a0 It is an S-58 and will be exactly the same type which is used at the Games.\u00a0 I got this picture of it while it was landing, just before it was obscured by the dust it was kicking up&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The helicopter test today is HUGE &#8211; we really need this to work right.\u00a0 Having said that, it looks like all the ducks are in a row.\u00a0 The winch testing from yesterday went well, the hardware is in place, teams are here, TRUMPF is here with its laser and NASA is doing a great job of coordinating everything.<\/p>\n<p>As always, click on the thumbnail for a larger version of the picture.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to be blogging more, but the data connection here is not very good &#8211; I can do Tweets (follow us at SEGames), but blogging requires more bandwidth &#8211; tough for us outsiders to get here.\u00a0 But we&#8217;re working on improving that too &#8211; after all, this is &#8216;test week&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As always, click on the picture thumbnail for a larger version&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The helicopter arrived this morning, on time (early, even).\u00a0 It is an S-58 and will be exactly the same type which is used at the Games.\u00a0 I got this picture of it while it was landing, just before it was obscured by the dust it was kicking up&#8230; The helicopter test today is HUGE &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}