{"id":1828,"date":"2021-02-03T09:32:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T08:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/?p=1828"},"modified":"2021-05-27T11:59:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T09:59:05","slug":"some-moswey-iii-history-january-1946-rekord-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/2021\/02\/03\/some-moswey-iii-history-january-1946-rekord-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Moswey III history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In January 1946, Swiss glider pilot Siegbert Maurer attempted to break a glider rekord. On the Albis Pass, across lake Z\u00fcrich from our club, he started his Moswey III in sub-zero temperatures and with a strong northern wind (Bise). The aim was to stay airborne for more than 28 hours and 7 minutes. Staying airborne in a glider for a long time wasn&#8217;t uncommon in this days. Trying to do so in the midst of a cold winter was. Unfortunately he was forced to land after &#8220;only&#8221; 17 hours, in the early morning of Wednesday 16 January. It wasn&#8217;t the performance of his glider that forced him to land, but his fear for serious injury after his legs started showing signs of frostbite.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/mobilitaet\/luftfahrt\/rekordversuch-im-dauersegelflug-1946-rund-um-zuerich-ld.1596174?reduced=true\">There&#8217;s a nice article on this attempt, including some cool Moswey III pictures, in the Neue Z\u00fcrcher Zeitung<\/a>. Unfortunately only in German and you need to register to get access. But worth a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January 1946, Swiss glider pilot Siegbert Maurer attempted to break a glider rekord. On the Albis Pass, across lake Z\u00fcrich from our club, he started his Moswey III in sub-zero temperatures and with a strong northern wind (Bise). The aim was to stay airborne for more than 28 hours and 7 minutes. Staying airborne [&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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mosweyiii"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9zI6K-tu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828","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=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1836,"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions\/1836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}