{"id":57162,"date":"2017-05-01T23:43:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T06:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/elevating-unity-episode-3-first-feather"},"modified":"2017-05-01T23:43:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T06:43:00","slug":"elevating-unity-episode-3-first-feather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/elevating-unity-episode-3-first-feather","title":{"rendered":"Elevating Unity \u2014 Episode 3: First Feather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/facebook\/videos\/10155286109369297\" data-width=\"625\" data-allowfullscreen=\"true\" data-autoplay=\"true\"><\/div>\n<p>On May 1st, 2017 VSS Unity\u2019s \u201cfeather\u201d re-entry system was activated in flight for the first time. In this video, VSS Unity Project Engineer Gabe Williams describes the vehicle\u2019s unique feathering re-entry system.<\/p>\n<p>VSS Unity was piloted by Mark Stucky and Mike Masucci, with pilots Nicola Pecile and CJ Sturckow as well as flight test engineer Dustin Mosher in carrier aircraft VMS Eve. This test flight was the fourth glide flight (and eighth flight overall) of VSS Unity.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/virgingalactic\/videos\/10155286109369297\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/virgingalactic\/videos\/10155286109369297\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 1st, 2017 VSS Unity\u2019s \u201cfeather\u201d re-entry system was activated in flight for the first time. In this video, VSS Unity Project Engineer Gabe Williams describes the vehicle\u2019s unique feathering re-entry system. VSS Unity was piloted by Mark Stucky and Mike Masucci, with pilots Nicola Pecile and CJ Sturckow as well as flight test [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":431,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57162","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\/431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}