{"id":3576,"date":"2017-05-30T16:07:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T20:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/?p=3576"},"modified":"2020-08-20T10:28:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T14:28:18","slug":"new-addition-1999-draganflyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/2017\/05\/30\/new-addition-1999-draganflyer\/","title":{"rendered":"New Addition: 1999 Draganflyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the April 2017 issue of <em>Model Aviation<\/em>, the museum requested the donation of three Draganflyer products.\u00a0 Thankfully, one of them, the Draganflyer I, dating from 1999, was donated by Daniel &#8220;Super Dan&#8221; Fetterly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/05\/NMAM2017-28-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3579\" src=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/05\/NMAM2017-28-01.jpg\" alt=\"The 1999 Draganflyer is a quadcopter arranged in an &quot;+&quot; so to help keep track the leading prop is painted bight orange.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/05\/NMAM2017-28-01.jpg 800w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/05\/NMAM2017-28-01-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/05\/NMAM2017-28-01-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0 Draganflyer I has a great history; it was sold through Probotics of Texas, and used for research purposes.\u00a0 Dan commented that it was a handful during flight &#8211; a statement evidenced by the many spots of glue, balsa supports and replaced parts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/05\/NMAM2017-28-dome.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3580\" src=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/05\/NMAM2017-28-dome.jpg\" alt=\"The original dome on the multirotor was replaced with a plastic cup lid. The new dome has also cracked.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/05\/NMAM2017-28-dome.jpg 800w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/05\/NMAM2017-28-dome-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/05\/NMAM2017-28-dome-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Super Dan for helping to grow the museum&#8217;s collection!<\/p>\n<p>&#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>In the April 2017 issue of Model Aviation, the museum requested the donation of three Draganflyer products.\u00a0 Thankfully, one of them, the Draganflyer I, dating from 1999, was donated by Daniel &#8220;Super Dan&#8221; Fetterly. This\u00a0 Draganflyer I has a great history; it was sold through Probotics of Texas, and used [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,121,122],"tags":[230,123,251],"class_list":["post-3576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-museum","category-new-addition","category-thank-you","tag-multirotors","tag-new-addition-2","tag-thank-you"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576","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=3576"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4765,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576\/revisions\/4765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}