{"id":3390,"date":"2022-03-15T17:24:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T06:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pm.hovercraft.technology\/w\/?p=3390"},"modified":"2022-03-15T17:48:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T06:48:44","slug":"hover-history-a-look-at-a-turbo-225-wedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pm.hovercraft.technology\/w\/2022\/03\/15\/hover-history-a-look-at-a-turbo-225-wedge\/","title":{"rendered":"Hover history &#8211; a look at a Turbo 225 Wedge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 225 Wedge was the craft that Owen Ellis and I developed back in 1984. It ias a plan\/kit craft based around the Robin EC44 twin cylinder 2 stroke engine that was around at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Part of our thinking was that the builder would be best person to maintain a hovercraft &#8211; they would literally know it inside out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a video of an inspection of Paul Mott&#8217;s craft. He is one of the early builders of the Wedge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our idea worked out. Paul has run and maintained his 225 Wedge for 34 years now &#8211; it&#8217;s still one of the fastest craft around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/g9lU4Em0Asc\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. The 225 Wedge was the craft that Owen Ellis and I developed back in 1984. It ias a plan\/kit craft based around the Robin EC44 twin cylinder 2 stroke engine that was around at the time. Part of our thinking was that the builder would be best person to maintain a hovercraft &#8211; they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pm.hovercraft.technology\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pm.hovercraft.technology\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pm.hovercraft.technology\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pm.hovercraft.technology\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pm.hovercraft.technology\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pm.hovercraft.technology\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3396,"href":"https:\/\/pm.hovercraft.technology\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390\/revisions\/3396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pm.hovercraft.technology\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pm.hovercraft.technology\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pm.hovercraft.technology\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pm.hovercraft.technology\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}