{"id":180,"date":"2012-05-18T13:56:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T13:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amaclubs\/?p=180"},"modified":"2012-05-18T13:56:56","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T13:56:56","slug":"11-year-old-enjoys-radio-controlled-airplanes-by-terri-t-johnson-almanac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amaclubs\/2012\/05\/18\/11-year-old-enjoys-radio-controlled-airplanes-by-terri-t-johnson-almanac\/","title":{"rendered":"11-year-old enjoys radio-controlled airplanes  By Terri T. Johnson Almanac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Mattes IV, known as Louie, loves to fly radio-controlled airplanes and is the youngest member of the South Park Area Radio Kontrol Society, known as SPARKS.<\/p>\n<p>The fascination of flying the radio-controlled plane is easy to explain, even for someone 11 years old.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just (having a plane) in the air and in control of whatever you want to do,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Louie flew his first plane when he was about 4 years old and became enamored with the sport from his father, Louis Mattes III, who flew similar planes in the 1970s and early 1980s, Louie said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thealmanac.net\/alm\/story11\/05-16-2012-BP-Louie-airplane-club\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.observer-reporter.com\/assets\/8066770\/051612_BP-Louie-airplane-club.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thealmanac.net\/alm\/story11\/05-16-2012-BP-Louie-airplane-club\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>READ FULL-STORY &gt;<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sprcclub.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>learn more about AMA Chartered Club #1633 South Park Area Radio Kontrol Society &gt;<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Mattes IV, known as Louie, loves to fly radio-controlled airplanes and is the youngest member of the South Park Area Radio Kontrol Society, known as SPARKS. The fascination of flying the radio-controlled plane is easy to explain, even for someone 11 years old. &#8220;It&#8217;s just (having a plane) in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,62],"tags":[38,36],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ama-district-iii","category-pennsylvania","tag-boy-scouts","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amaclubs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amaclubs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amaclubs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amaclubs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amaclubs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amaclubs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amaclubs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amaclubs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amaclubs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amaclubs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}