{"id":11132,"date":"2025-12-17T17:48:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T00:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=11132"},"modified":"2025-12-17T17:48:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T00:48:29","slug":"122nd-anniversary-of-powered-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2025\/12\/17\/122nd-anniversary-of-powered-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"122nd Anniversary of Powered Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/colorized-wright-flyer.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/colorized-wright-flyer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1673\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11133\" srcset=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/colorized-wright-flyer.jpg 1673w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/colorized-wright-flyer-300x143.jpg 300w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/colorized-wright-flyer-1024x490.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/colorized-wright-flyer-768x367.jpg 768w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/colorized-wright-flyer-1536x734.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1673px) 100vw, 1673px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just a quick one here to acknowledge one of the most iconic technological feats in history that occurred in the early 20th century; to wit: the Wright Brothers first flights. I did a detailed post on this topic in <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2022\/12\/17\/119th-anniversary-of-powered-flight\/\" target=\"_blank\">December of 2022<\/a>. In that post, I referenced an old photo, a display replica of the flyer and occupant. I asked the <a href=\"https:\/\/gemini.google.com\/app\" target=\"_blank\">GEMINI AI<\/a> to colorize and noise enhance it and the (clickable) image above is the result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick one here to acknowledge one of the most iconic technological feats in history that occurred in the early 20th century; to wit: the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,84,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-classics","category-technology-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11136,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11132\/revisions\/11136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}