{"id":460,"date":"2013-12-18T19:49:11","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T10:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonsnz.com\/wp\/?page_id=460"},"modified":"2020-06-11T11:15:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T01:45:05","slug":"pond-racer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/horizonsnz.com\/pond-racer\/","title":{"rendered":"Pond Racer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics --><br \/>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.googletagmanager.com\/gtag\/js?id=UA-168832049-1\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script><br \/>\n  window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];<br \/>\n  function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}<br \/>\n  gtag('js', new Date());<\/p>\n<p>  gtag('config', 'UA-168832049-1');<br \/>\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/horizonsnz.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Pond-Racer-header.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-461\" src=\"https:\/\/horizonsnz.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Pond-Racer-header-300x105.png\" alt=\"Pond Racer header\" width=\"300\" height=\"105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/horizonsnz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Pond-Racer-header-300x105.png 300w, https:\/\/horizonsnz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Pond-Racer-header-1024x359.png 1024w, https:\/\/horizonsnz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Pond-Racer-header-250x87.png 250w, https:\/\/horizonsnz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Pond-Racer-header-150x52.png 150w, https:\/\/horizonsnz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Pond-Racer-header.png 2019w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/horizonsnz.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/In-Design.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-350 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/horizonsnz.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/In-Design-300x195.png\" alt=\"In Design\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/horizonsnz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/In-Design-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/horizonsnz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/In-Design-229x150.png 229w, https:\/\/horizonsnz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/In-Design-150x97.png 150w, https:\/\/horizonsnz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/In-Design.png 670w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, here is something unusual, and exciting. It&#8217;s a Pond Racer from the early&nbsp;90&#8217;s. Warbird owner and industrialist, Bob Pond became concerned about the number of classic warbird airframes being lost to modification and crashes for the Reno Air Races. He&nbsp;commissioned Burt Rutan to design the Pond Racer with the idea of developing a modern aircraft that could compete with the vintage warbirds in the Unlimited Class at the Reno air races. Powered by under-developed and troublesome auto engines, the aircraft never really achieved it&#8217;s design speed, and ultimately crashed (fatally) during qualification for its first races. Had development continued, it is believed that the design could have achieved it&#8217;s goals, but development was halted after the crash and the project dropped.<\/p>\n<p>Pity, because it&#8217;s an exciting and different aircraft, and we think it should make a great model. So, with this in mind, we will soon begin development of the model, to be electric powered to reduce asymmetric engine problems.<\/p>\n<p>Let us know if you&#8217;re interested in this little guy&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/horizonsnz.com\/pond-racer\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":461,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsnz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsnz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsnz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsnz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsnz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsnz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9892,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsnz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/460\/revisions\/9892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsnz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsnz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}