{"id":2401,"date":"2015-07-20T18:36:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T08:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=2401"},"modified":"2015-07-20T18:36:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T08:36:29","slug":"aeroprakt-a32-flies-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=2401","title":{"rendered":"Aeroprakt A32 flies in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/07\/a32-landing-011.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2406 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/07\/a32-landing-011.jpg?w=627\" alt=\"A32 landing 01\" width=\"627\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/a32-landing-011.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/a32-landing-011-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/a32-landing-011-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/a32-landing-011-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/a32-landing-011-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a>Monday 20 July &#8211; the first Aeroprakt A32 in Australia, VH-VBQ, made its maiden flight at Moorabbin Airport. After flying some circuits I then flew it to its new home at Tyabb Airport.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be writing a full &#8216;first impressions&#8217; report soon but meanwhile, I can tell you\u00a0the aircraft\u00a0exceeded all my expectations &#8211; I even had to take two friends for flights just to confirm I wasn&#8217;t dreaming.<\/p>\n<p>All the development work on the aerodynamics has paid off handsomely, with a quiet and smooth cruise, while retaining\u00a0all the short take-off\u00a0\u00a0and landing characteristics which are the hallmarks of Yuriy Yakovlyev&#8217;s designs.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s flying totalled less than 90 minutes&#8230;watch this space for more.<\/p>\n<p><em>As usual, thanks to Mike Rudd for the photo &#8211; click on it for the full size version<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday 20 July &#8211; the first Aeroprakt A32 in Australia, VH-VBQ, made its maiden flight at Moorabbin Airport. After flying some circuits I then flew it to its new home at Tyabb Airport. I&#8217;ll be writing a full &#8216;first impressions&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=2401\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}