{"id":2605,"date":"2015-10-08T15:58:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T19:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/?p=2605"},"modified":"2015-10-08T16:06:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T20:06:53","slug":"new-addition-cumulus-rc-sailplane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/2015\/10\/08\/new-addition-cumulus-rc-sailplane\/","title":{"rendered":"New Addition: Cumulus RC Sailplane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concrete runways are hard on sailplanes.\u00a0 Barbara K. Henon learned this fact at\u00a0 Mile Square in Southern CA while flying her Graupner Cumulus RC Sailplane during the national League of Silent Flight contest in 1972.\u00a0\u00a0 Barbara won the contest, but the Cumulus ended it beat up and dirty, although that doesn&#8217;t matter when you can take home both the Duration Winner trophy and the Overall Winner trophy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2600\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2600\" style=\"width: 602px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/10\/2015.30-Barbara-and-Cumulus-pic-by-donor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2600\" src=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/10\/2015.30-Barbara-and-Cumulus-pic-by-donor.jpg\" alt=\"The 111&quot; wingspan towers Barbara as she holds the model against her shoulder.\" width=\"602\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/10\/2015.30-Barbara-and-Cumulus-pic-by-donor.jpg 602w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/10\/2015.30-Barbara-and-Cumulus-pic-by-donor-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/10\/2015.30-Barbara-and-Cumulus-pic-by-donor-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara K. Henon poses with the Cumulus before sending it to the museum in late 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2603\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2603\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/10\/NMAM2015-30all.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2603\" src=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/10\/NMAM2015-30all.jpg\" alt=\"The Graupner Cumulous 2800 has a bright yellow box that sets off the trophies made out of wire to look like sailplanes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/10\/NMAM2015-30all.jpg 800w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/10\/NMAM2015-30all-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2603\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The wire sculpture trophies that were awarded to winners of the 1972 League of Silent Flight contest are very unique.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Cumulus sailplane, its original radio equipment, and winning trophies have all been donated to the collection by Barbara K. Henon &amp; Richard Shilling, with the assistance of:\u00a0 Fred Weaver, SoaringUSA, Keith Finkenbiner, Manuel Barba Ortiz.\u00a0 Thank you, all, for helping to grow the museum&#8217;s collection!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concrete runways are hard on sailplanes.\u00a0 Barbara K. Henon learned this fact at\u00a0 Mile Square in Southern CA while flying her Graupner Cumulus RC Sailplane during the national League of Silent Flight contest in 1972.\u00a0\u00a0 Barbara won the contest, but the Cumulus ended it beat up and dirty, although that [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,121,122],"tags":[123,183,251],"class_list":["post-2605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-museum","category-new-addition","category-thank-you","tag-new-addition-2","tag-radio-control-soaring","tag-thank-you"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605","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=2605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2607,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605\/revisions\/2607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}