{"id":2120,"date":"2015-02-05T18:46:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T18:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/?p=2120"},"modified":"2015-02-05T18:46:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T18:46:50","slug":"new-addition-lmh-100-model-helicopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/2015\/02\/05\/new-addition-lmh-100-model-helicopter\/","title":{"rendered":"New Addition: LMH-100 Model Helicopter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Astro Flight produced the first sensored brushless motors in 1997, Arnie Gaus did the math and realized that electric-powered model helicopter flight might finally be possible.\u00a0 He purchased a Lite Machines LMH-100 helicopter kit, Astro 020 motor (model #802), SR 500Max NiCad battery pack, and a custom dual FET controller and began the project.\u00a0 The first flight in June 1998 proved that electric rotary wing flight was indeed possible.\u00a0 Arnie recently donated the complete helicopter and accessories to the museum&#8217;s collection.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2121\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2121\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/02\/NMAM2014-65-01-first-flight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2121\" src=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/02\/NMAM2014-65-01-first-flight.jpg\" alt=\"Arnie Gaus poses with his son Joshua and the electric-powered LMH-100 in June 1998.  Photograph courtesy of Arnie Gaus.\" width=\"590\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/02\/NMAM2014-65-01-first-flight.jpg 590w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/02\/NMAM2014-65-01-first-flight-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arnie Gaus poses with his son Joshua and the electric-powered LMH-100 in June 1998. Photograph courtesy of Arnie Gaus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thank you, Arnie, for helping grow the museum&#8217;s collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Astro Flight produced the first sensored brushless motors in 1997, Arnie Gaus did the math and realized that electric-powered model helicopter flight might finally be possible.\u00a0 He purchased a Lite Machines LMH-100 helicopter kit, Astro 020 motor (model #802), SR 500Max NiCad battery pack, and a custom dual FET [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,121,122],"tags":[166,123,165,251],"class_list":["post-2120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-museum","category-new-addition","category-thank-you","tag-model-helicopter","tag-new-addition-2","tag-radio-control-helicopter","tag-thank-you"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2123,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions\/2123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}