{"id":4187,"date":"2018-10-31T16:20:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T20:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/?p=4187"},"modified":"2018-11-09T14:04:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T18:04:20","slug":"halloween-addition-a-flying-witch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/2018\/10\/31\/halloween-addition-a-flying-witch\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Addition: A Flying Witch!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watch out, she\u2019s pretty scary. And spooky. And creepy. And she really flies.<\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t a Halloween trick, either. She\u2019s a flying witch. Because, she\u2019s really a radio-controlled model airplane, powered by a Super Tigre .61 engine.<\/p>\n

Her name is Sandy.<\/p>\n

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Sandy, the flying witch. Out of the picture is the model’s tail, formed by the thrush’s of the broom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sandy was built in 1982 by Stanley J. Hyman, based on plans by Col. Art Johnson in the October 1980 issue of Radio Control Modeler<\/em> (RCM). Art called his creation \u201cVroom Hilda,\u201d but due to some family jokes, Stanley\u2019s version became Sandy (apparently it was a play off the word \u201csandwich\u201d). The jokes didn\u2019t stop at her name; commenters during flights liked to make jokes referring to \u201cthe old witch\u201d as Stanley\u2019s wife. Further jokes were made about the \u201cwitch-chucker\u201d whose job it was to launch Sandy into the wind, as she was not able to roll (or run?) in a traditional take-off.<\/p>\n

Sandy wasn\u2019t just a Halloween treat \u2013 Stanley flew her year round for about 30 years. He also didn\u2019t fly just her, but had a hangar full of novelty aircraft, including a flying lawn mower, and an electric-powered flying pizza box.<\/p>\n

Happy Halloween!<\/p>\n

Sandy was donated to the museum in Memory of Stanley J. Hyman II.\u00a0 Thank you for helping to grow the museum’s collection!<\/p>\n

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Watch out, she\u2019s pretty scary. And spooky. And creepy. And she really flies. It isn\u2019t a Halloween trick, either. She\u2019s a flying witch. Because, she\u2019s really a radio-controlled model airplane, powered by a Super Tigre .61 engine. Her name is Sandy. Sandy was built in 1982 by Stanley J. Hyman, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,121,122],"tags":[133,123,251],"class_list":["post-4187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-museum","category-new-addition","category-thank-you","tag-model-airplane","tag-new-addition-2","tag-thank-you"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187","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=4187"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4197,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions\/4197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}