{"id":2365,"date":"2012-01-23T01:25:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T01:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=2365"},"modified":"2016-12-30T10:39:04","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T15:39:04","slug":"new-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/kermit-weeks\/new-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"New Acquisition!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming back from my Heli-ski trip I stopped in Lewiston, ID to check out a dual-control Curtiss Pusher that had been built and flown to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the first airplane flight in Idaho. \u00a0It was built by Dean Wilson, whom I had met in the late 1980&#8217;s at an Idaho auction where I purchased my original WWI Avro 504. \u00a0Dean was the one that rebuilt it!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 545px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2370 size-full colorbox-2365\" title=\"IMG_0592 copy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0592-copy1.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"408\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hangar Flying . . . in the most open sense of the word!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It currently has a modern engine in it and some additions like primitive brakes and a castering nosewheel. \u00a0I felt this would be a good trainer for me for the Benoist project we&#8217;re building to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the 1st commercial airplane flight on 1\/1\/2014.<\/p>\n<p>The airplane has flown about 7 hours and I can&#8217;t wait to get it home. \u00a0I just need to find some hangar space at Fantasy of Flight to put it in!<\/p>\n<p>Kermit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming back from my Heli-ski trip I stopped in Lewiston, ID to check out a dual-control Curtiss Pusher that had been built and flown to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the first airplane flight in\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curtiss-pusher","category-kermit-weeks","new-acquisition"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6011,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions\/6011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}