{"id":6138,"date":"2015-01-01T12:07:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T11:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=6138"},"modified":"2017-01-06T11:40:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T10:40:35","slug":"engineering-the-hovertrain-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/engineering-the-hovertrain-1972\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering the Hovertrain 1972"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proving extremely popular are the videos and films made with <a title=\"Blog entry\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/2009\/12\/09\/eric-laithwaite\/\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Eric Laithwaite<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2014\/12\/Laithwaite-Eng-Hovertrain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6140\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2014\/12\/Laithwaite-Eng-Hovertrain-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Laithwaite Eng Hovertrain\" \/><\/a>In this blog I&#8217;m pleased to be able to bring you one of several films that were in the personal collection of Eric Laithwaite and that I was lucky enough to be able to secure in the Imperial Archive after he&#8217;d died.<\/p>\n<p>Engineering the Hovertrain was made in 1972 by the then, Central Office of Information. It&#8217;s about the only real example of the creation and operation of the experimental hovertrain vehicle the RTV31, seen running on the test track that was built in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A5E8GHbeXw8 ]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw January 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proving extremely popular are the videos and films made with Professor Eric Laithwaite. In this blog I&#8217;m pleased to be able to bring you one of several films that were in the personal collection of Eric Laithwaite and that I was lucky enough to be able to secure in the Imperial Archive after he&#8217;d died. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,81],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-6138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-research","tag-electrical-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6138"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7161,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6138\/revisions\/7161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}