{"id":1155,"date":"2007-10-08T10:23:02","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T10:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2007-10-08T10:23:02","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T10:23:02","slug":"yeaaaaaaaaarrrrrggggg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/08\/yeaaaaaaaaarrrrrggggg\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeaaaaaaaaarrrrrggggg!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following up on that item<\/a> from last week about the half-size X-Wing built by some model-rocket enthusiasts, here’s some video of its spectacular (if short) flight:<\/p>\n

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Looks a lot like what happened<\/a> to poor old Porkins<\/a>…<\/p>\n

(Porkins: “I’ve got a problem here.”<\/p>\n

Biggs: “Eject!”<\/p>\n

Porkins: “I can hold it.”<\/p>\n

Biggs: “Pull up!”<\/p>\n

Porkins: “No, I’m alrigh—yeaaaaaargggg!”)<\/p>\n

Update:<\/b> Here’s another clip from a different angle. Looks like it launched with the S-foils in attack position (i.e., the wings open in the X-shape), something I wasn’t clear on from earlier information. Wonder if that made any difference with the tumble?<\/p>\n

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Following up on that item from last week about the half-size X-Wing built by some model-rocket enthusiasts, here’s some video of its spectacular (if short) flight: Looks a lot like what happened to poor old Porkins… (Porkins: “I’ve got a problem here.” Biggs: “Eject!” Porkins: “I can hold it.” Biggs: “Pull up!” Porkins: “No, I’m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}