{"id":22077,"date":"2013-06-12T09:02:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T13:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=22077"},"modified":"2013-06-12T09:02:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T13:02:14","slug":"what-1903-wright-flyer-is-there-a-flyer-in-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/06\/12\/what-1903-wright-flyer-is-there-a-flyer-in-here\/","title":{"rendered":"What 1903 Wright Flyer? Is there a flyer in here?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Excerpt<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sixteen feet up hangs a replica of the Wright Brothers 1903 Flyer. The wingspan is over 40 feet and it has a length of 21 feet from the nose to the tip of the tail.<\/p>\n<p>Students who do notice the giant flyer realize its significance in history. Michael Gustafson, an engineering student, said, \u201cI look at it every time I come up the steps, I like the symbolism of man taking to the sky.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The project to build the replica was lead by Howard DuFour, who retired from WSU as a master machinist and model builder.<\/p>\n<p>DuFour authored a book about the Wright\u2019s mechanic, <em>Charles Taylor the Wright Brothers Mechanician<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/news\/news\/local\/what-1903-wright-flyer-is-there-a-flyer-in-here\/nYDjW\/\" target=\"_blank\">DaytonDailyNews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt Sixteen feet up hangs a replica of the Wright Brothers 1903 Flyer. The wingspan is over 40 feet and it has a length of 21 feet from the nose to the tip of the tail. Students who do notice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/06\/12\/what-1903-wright-flyer-is-there-a-flyer-in-here\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[714,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-the-media","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22077"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22091,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22077\/revisions\/22091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}