{"id":2915,"date":"2016-06-13T09:36:38","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T13:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/?p=2915"},"modified":"2016-06-10T09:51:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T13:51:08","slug":"new-addition-mercury-45-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/2016\/06\/13\/new-addition-mercury-45-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"New Addition:  Mercury 45 engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Avion Machine and Tool Co. marketed their Mercury 45 engine to RC fans in 1946 by focusing on their new &#8220;real&#8221; carburetor which could regulate both gas and air simultaneously, allowing full control over the speed.\u00a0 The ad makes a point, though, to say that while this is most advantageous in Radio Control, it could still be used in Free Flight.\u00a0 Paul E. Chapman, Jr., recently donated this Mercury 45 in honor of his father, Paul E. Chapman, Sr.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/06\/NMAM2016-16-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2910\" src=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/06\/NMAM2016-16-01.jpg\" alt=\"NMAM2016-16-01\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/06\/NMAM2016-16-01.jpg 800w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/06\/NMAM2016-16-01-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nFor more information on the National Model Aviation Museum, including our location, hours and admission fees visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.modelaircraft.org\/museum\">www.modelaircraft.org\/museum<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avion Machine and Tool Co. marketed their Mercury 45 engine to RC fans in 1946 by focusing on their new &#8220;real&#8221; carburetor which could regulate both gas and air simultaneously, allowing full control over the speed.\u00a0 The ad makes a point, though, to say that while this is most advantageous [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,47,121,122],"tags":[123,251],"class_list":["post-2915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engines","category-museum","category-new-addition","category-thank-you","tag-new-addition-2","tag-thank-you"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915","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=2915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2916,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915\/revisions\/2916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}