{"id":1311,"date":"2009-11-03T18:47:24","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T23:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2009-11-04T00:50:22","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T05:50:22","slug":"re-installing-rotor-blades-on-a-helicopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1311","title":{"rendered":"Re-installing rotor blades on a helicopter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The helicopter used for the Space Elevator Games, a McDonnell Douglas MD530FF, was trucked in from its base in Washington.\u00a0 The rotor blades were taken off for transport and consequently had to be re-installed when it got to NASA-Dryden.<\/p>\n<p>This occurred on Monday morning and I filmed part of it.\u00a0 During filming, I misspoke and said that the mechanics were reassembling &#8216;the rotor&#8217; &#8211; of course I meant the rotor blades.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SaDPB6hcWC4[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Piece of cake&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The helicopter used for the Space Elevator Games, a McDonnell Douglas MD530FF, was trucked in from its base in Washington.\u00a0 The rotor blades were taken off for transport and consequently had to be re-installed when it got to NASA-Dryden. This occurred on Monday morning and I filmed part of it.\u00a0 During filming, I misspoke and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","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=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}