{"id":1600,"date":"2014-06-27T08:44:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T08:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?p=1600"},"modified":"2014-06-27T08:44:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T08:44:46","slug":"st-albans-school-successful-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?p=1600","title":{"rendered":"St Alban&#8217;s School &#8211; Successful Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To much relief, Alban the school mascot was recovered from a tree in a field in Cheshire.  See this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge-news.co.uk\/News\/Bold-teddy-bear-Alban-becomes-first-Cambridge-school-mascot-to-reach-space-20140611101512.htm\">write-up<\/a> in the local Cambridge newspaper.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/alban.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/alban.jpg\" alt=\"alban\" width=\"784\" height=\"452\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1601\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/alban.jpg 784w, http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/alban-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;floater&#8221; flight initially did very well, ascending at the target rate (which is a challenge in itself with these flights), and turning west at the predicted latitude.  It then achieved a float but only for a couple of hours, when the balloon burst resulting in a wet landing off the coast of Blackpool.  During the flight many images were sent down over the radio link, so it was a good flight though the aim wasn&#8217;t achieved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To much relief, Alban the school mascot was recovered from a tree in a field in Cheshire. See this write-up in the local Cambridge newspaper. The &#8220;floater&#8221; flight initially did very well, ascending at the target rate (which is a challenge in itself with these flights), and turning west at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1602,"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions\/1602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}