{"id":26579,"date":"2016-06-07T17:31:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T00:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/meet-thor-a-lightweight-mini-plane-fresh-out-of-the-3d-printer"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:36:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:36:35","slug":"meet-thor-a-lightweight-mini-plane-fresh-out-of-the-3d-printer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/meet-thor-a-lightweight-mini-plane-fresh-out-of-the-3d-printer","title":{"rendered":"Meet THOR\u2014a Lightweight Mini-Plane Fresh out of the 3D Printer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meet-thor-a-lightweight-mini-plane-fresh-out-of-the-3d-printer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Airbus introduces the aviation world to a mini-plane called THOR (Test of High-tech Objectives in Reality). It is the first aircraft to be produced using 3D printing technology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.airbus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Airbus<\/a>, a leading aircraft manufacturer, has just unleashed THOR\u2014Test of High-tech Objectives in Reality\u2014a miniature aircraft constructed from 3D printing technology. The windowless, pilotless, and propeller-driven THOR weighs in at 21 kg, and measures less than 4 m long.<\/p>\n<p>Though it is much smaller than a regular jet, THOR is capable of stable flight and even promises to save on time, fuel and money.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/airbus-presents-thor-a-mini-plane-fresh-from-the-3d-printer\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/airbus-presents-thor-a-mini-plane-fresh-from-the-3d-printer\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airbus introduces the aviation world to a mini-plane called THOR (Test of High-tech Objectives in Reality). It is the first aircraft to be produced using 3D printing technology. Airbus, a leading aircraft manufacturer, has just unleashed THOR\u2014Test of High-tech Objectives in Reality\u2014a miniature aircraft constructed from 3D printing technology. The windowless, pilotless, and propeller-driven THOR [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1497,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26579","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50304,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26579\/revisions\/50304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}