{"id":1508,"date":"2020-09-01T14:54:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T14:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/?page_id=1508"},"modified":"2020-09-10T09:30:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T09:30:49","slug":"flight","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/ch23\/flight\/","title":{"rendered":"More to explore about flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW57810893 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW57810893 BCX4\">Instantly she was whirling through the air, so swiftly that all she could <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW57810893 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2 SCXW57810893 BCX4\">see<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW57810893 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW57810893 BCX4\"> or feel was the wind whistling past her ears.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Explore these websites and videos to find out more about flight.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"If superpowers were real: Flight - Joy Lin\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0GDYCxQYbjg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Unfortunately, humans are unlikely to fly by themselves any time soon, so we need to rely on aircraft, and people have been working on that problem for centuries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dkfindout.com\/uk\/transport\/history-aircraft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">History of aircraft<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are now all sorts of inventions that allow people to fly including hang-gliders, microlights, paragliders\u00a0and the utterly insane wing suit &#8211; not officially flying, more like falling.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Skimming The Earth in a Wingsuit\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gUk2bdvdozI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>But humans are not the only creatures that have learned new ways to take to the air.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spiders Spin Balloons to Fly Away | National Geographic\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8rTEe2vS-VI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Challenge yourself!<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW169698916 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169698916 BCX4\">Find out more about more about the great journeys made by the early pilots, including Louis Bleriot, Charles Lindburgh, Amy Johnson and Amelia Earhart. Choose your <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW169698916 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2 SCXW169698916 BCX4\">favourite<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW169698916 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169698916 BCX4\">\u00a0flyer and write a thrilling tale about their flight.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW169698916 BCX4\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You can also look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/help\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Help with Challenges<\/a> page to come up with your own flight challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instantly she was whirling through the air, so swiftly that all she could see or feel was the wind whistling past her ears. Explore these websites and videos to find out more about flight. Unfortunately, humans are unlikely to fly by themselves any time soon, so we need to rely on aircraft, and people have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/ch23\/flight\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More to explore about flight<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":0,"parent":52,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1508","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1508\/revisions\/1610"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}