{"id":189205,"date":"2024-05-11T15:30:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T20:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/custom-made-drone-smashes-guinness-world-record-with-298-mph-flight"},"modified":"2024-05-11T15:30:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T20:30:10","slug":"custom-made-drone-smashes-guinness-world-record-with-298-mph-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/custom-made-drone-smashes-guinness-world-record-with-298-mph-flight","title":{"rendered":"Custom-made drone smashes Guinness World Record with 298 mph flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/custom-made-drone-smashes-guinness-world-record-with-298-mph-flight2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A custom-made drone designed by South Africa-based father-son duo Mike and Luke Bell has set a world record after flying just shy of 300 miles an hour.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5j6_IcH9I0c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The record-making attempt was performed on April 21, but according to the men behind the effort, the project has been in the works for months.<\/p>\n<p>Luke Bell is a photographer and content creator known for his YouTube channel, which he runs with the same handle. About a year ago, Bell won the GoPro $1 million challenge after converting his versatile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5j6_IcH9I0c&t=1s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">camera into a tennis ball<\/a> and getting some amazing footage of his dog Ollie catching the ball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A custom-made drone designed by South Africa-based father-son duo Mike and Luke Bell has set a world record after flying just shy of 300 miles an hour. The record-making attempt was performed on April 21, but according to the men behind the effort, the project has been in the works for months. Luke Bell is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189205","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}