{"id":544,"date":"2018-03-04T14:25:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T14:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coalduststar.com\/?p=544"},"modified":"2018-03-04T14:27:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T14:27:58","slug":"gee-bee-model-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coalduststar.com\/?p=544","title":{"rendered":"Gee Bee Model R"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beautiful but dangerous. There&#8217;s something incredibly appealing about this little plane. Designed for manoeuvrability \u00a0in air races, it inspires some kind of retro futuristic feeling in it&#8217;s seeming denial of laws of physics and traditional aeronautical design. I love it.<\/p>\n<p>It reminds me of the Famicon video game Twin Bee. For some reason I had always imagined that this was the plane represented in the 8-bit shoot em up joy-fest.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"imgur-embed-pub\" lang=\"en\" data-id=\"a\/BSrj1\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/BSrj1\">The Gee Bee Model R Super Sportster : A Cute But Dangerous Airplane<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/s.imgur.com\/min\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TwinBee (\u30c4\u30a4\u30f3\u30d3\u30fc) Famicom 20,000,000pts Nomiss Loop 9 All Clear (60Fps)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wyOUD4kBUVc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beautiful but dangerous. There&#8217;s something incredibly appealing about this little plane. Designed for manoeuvrability \u00a0in air races, it inspires some kind of retro futuristic feeling in it&#8217;s seeming denial of laws of physics and traditional aeronautical design. I love it. It reminds me of the Famicon video game Twin Bee. For some reason I had&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coalduststar.com\/?p=544\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[112,27,114,117,113,116,111,115],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-update","tag-bee","tag-design","tag-famicon","tag-flight","tag-gee","tag-planes","tag-super","tag-twin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coalduststar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coalduststar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coalduststar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coalduststar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coalduststar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.coalduststar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"https:\/\/www.coalduststar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coalduststar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coalduststar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coalduststar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coalduststar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}