{"id":23301,"date":"2024-12-31T22:56:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T21:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=23301"},"modified":"2024-12-31T23:04:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T22:04:02","slug":"one-last-video-for-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/one-last-video-for-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"One last video for 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2024 I purchased what I named my Ex-Pat X-Air from an old friend in the UK. It hadn&#8217;t been flown for several years and I restored it to an airworthy condition over several weeks before re-registering it to bring it to France. I eventually flew it out of a field owned by my friend in late 2019 and this is a video of a flight from that same field in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 by a different aircraft intercut with video of the X-Air&#8217;s actual. The flight simulator scenery was custom built by me and although it differs from the real thing in some details for reasons of privacy, is actually pretty accurate.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"505\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tjjpnFe9weI?wmode=transparent&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;showsearch=0&amp;rel=1&amp;theme=dark\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Happy 2025 everyone!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2024 I purchased what I named my Ex-Pat X-Air from an old friend in the UK. It hadn&#8217;t been flown for several years and I restored it to an airworthy condition over several weeks before re-registering it to bring it to France. I eventually flew it out of a field owned by my &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/one-last-video-for-2024\/\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23303,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23301\/revisions\/23303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}