{"id":200480178,"date":"2011-05-10T08:56:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T08:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=200480178"},"modified":"2011-05-10T08:56:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T08:56:18","slug":"human-powered-copter-ready-to-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=200480178","title":{"rendered":"Human-powered copter ready to rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/msnbcmedia.msn.com\/j\/MSNBC\/Components\/Photo\/_new\/110509-coslog-helicopter.photoblog600.png\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">By John Roach<\/div>\n<p>On Wednesday, Judy Wexler will pedal furiously, hoping to generate the force needed to lift a human-powered helicopter off the ground and win a $250,000 prize.<\/p>\n<p>The biology student at the University of Maryland is a competitive cyclist with a desirable power-to-weight ratio and endurance, noted Brandon Bush, a graduate student in the university&#8217;s school of engineering and project team member.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\nThe University of Maryland will live stream Wednesday&#8217;s test between 9 a.m. and 12 a.m. ET. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.agrc.umd.edu\/gamera\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a> to check it out.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2011\/05\/09\/6612689-human-powered-copter-ready-to-rise\">https:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2011\/05\/09\/6612689-human-powered-copter-ready-to-rise<\/a>oldId.20110510085618277<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Roach On Wednesday, Judy Wexler will pedal furiously, hoping to generate the force needed to lift a human-powered helicopter off the ground and win a $250,000 prize. The biology student at the University of Maryland is a competitive cyclist with a desirable power-to-weight ratio and endurance, noted Brandon Bush, a graduate student in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=200480178\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Human-powered copter ready to rise&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200480178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200480178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200480178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200480178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200480178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200480178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200480178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}