{"id":960,"date":"2009-04-15T10:36:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T16:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davintosh.com\/?p=960"},"modified":"2009-04-15T10:36:59","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T16:36:59","slug":"flying-like-an-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/15\/flying-like-an-eagle\/favorite-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying Like An Eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or in this case, a hawk. Very similar experience, I&#8217;m sure. I&#8217;ve had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davintosh.com\/2008\/02\/19\/flying-dreams\/\">incredibly vivid flying dreams<\/a> before, and this reminds me a lot of those dreams&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this fella strapped a video camera to the back of a hawk and let it do its thing, and came up with a stunning piece of videography. <object width=\"445\" height=\"364\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/APViUODDhT0&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x3a3a3a&#038;color2=0x999999&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>For years I&#8217;ve had this idea of a robotic suit that allows the wearer to fly like a bird&#8230; kind of a single-person ornithopter. Turns out I&#8217;m not the only one with that idea. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcgeorge.com\/gpage5.html\">This guy,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcgeorge.com\/\">D.C. George,<\/a> had the same idea and even committed the concept to paper. In 1972. It seems a pretty well-thought out design, reminiscent of the Icarus story in Greek mythology, although I&#8217;m not so sure about the h2o2 power source; I suppose he was counting on a method being developed to separate the hydrogen &amp; oxygen and use them for clean combustion. And no worries about melting wax at altitude. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcgeorge.com\/gpage5.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davintosh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/icarus.jpg?w=450\" alt=\"\" title=\"icarus\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-962\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or in this case, a hawk. Very similar experience, I&#8217;m sure. I&#8217;ve had incredibly vivid flying dreams before, and this reminds me a lot of those dreams&#8230; Anyway, this fella strapped a video camera to the back of a hawk and let it do its thing, and came up with a stunning piece of videography. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4,12,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-technology","category-favorite-things","category-fun","category-gadgets"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}