{"id":175111,"date":"2023-10-28T03:23:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T08:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/worlds-largest-quadcopter-drone-made-from-foamboard-takes-flight"},"modified":"2023-10-28T03:23:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T08:23:26","slug":"worlds-largest-quadcopter-drone-made-from-foamboard-takes-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/worlds-largest-quadcopter-drone-made-from-foamboard-takes-flight","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s largest quadcopter drone made from foamboard takes flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-largest-quadcopter-drone-made-from-foamboard-takes-flight2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of engineers from The University of Manchester has created and flown the world\u2019s largest drone, made from a lightweight and eco-friendly material.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The Giant Foamboard Quadcopter (GFQ) is unlike any other drone worldwide thanks to its innovative design. It is made from foamboard, a cardboard type with a foam core and a paper skin.<\/p>\n<p>A team of engineers from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manchester.ac.uk\/discover\/news\/asset\/79a0ff5a-5b94-4270-a00f-bd0dfd519e75\/quadcopter\" target=\"_blank\">The University of Manchester<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of engineers from The University of Manchester has created and flown the world\u2019s largest drone, made from a lightweight and eco-friendly material. The Giant Foamboard Quadcopter (GFQ) is unlike any other drone worldwide thanks to its innovative design. It is made from foamboard, a cardboard type with a foam core and a paper [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}