{"id":1373,"date":"2020-01-12T13:43:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T12:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2021-05-27T12:11:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T10:11:30","slug":"how-and-why-do-we-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/2020\/01\/12\/how-and-why-do-we-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"How and why do we do it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re regularly getting questions not just on how but also why we build our own gliders, and if it&#8217;s really worth the hundreds of hours of work that go into them. On 14 December 2019 we were invited at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.modellflug-nos.ch\/35-internationales-modellflug-symposium-nos-2019\/\">35th international aeromodelling symposium in Winterthur (CH)<\/a> to give a presentation on our work. Unfortunately I was unable to attend, but the other three members of our building team, Georg, Andi and Richie, explained how and especially also why we do this. I put together the slides for the presentation, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/3-seitenansicht.pdf\">are now uploaded here<\/a>. It&#8217;s mostly pictures, with some text in German. The two videos were included at the end of the slide-show are available on my Vimeo channel:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/276600198\">JS3 slope start<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/291053134\">JS3 on our airfield<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/3-seitenansicht.pdf\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1375\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/2020\/01\/12\/how-and-why-do-we-do-it\/3-seitenansicht_jpg\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/3-seitenansicht_jpg.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"3-seitenansicht_jpg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/3-seitenansicht_jpg.jpg?fit=510%2C287&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1375 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/3-seitenansicht_jpg-1024x576.jpg?resize=510%2C287\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/3-seitenansicht_jpg.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/3-seitenansicht_jpg.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/3-seitenansicht_jpg.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/3-seitenansicht_jpg.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re regularly getting questions not just on how but also why we build our own gliders, and if it&#8217;s really worth the hundreds of hours of work that go into them. On 14 December 2019 we were invited at the 35th international aeromodelling symposium in Winterthur (CH) to give a presentation on our work. Unfortunately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techniques","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9zI6K-m9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381,"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions\/1381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}