{"id":23513,"date":"2019-02-17T16:04:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T23:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=23513"},"modified":"2023-01-31T17:31:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T00:31:54","slug":"air-minded-terraplanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=23513","title":{"rendered":"Air-Minded: Terraplanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard about a Bristol Aeroplane Company worker who, some time after WWII, used the cockpit section of a Blenheim attack bomber as the body of a homemade electric car, which he drove around London for many years. Today, the cockpit is back in the air, used in the restoration of the <a href=\"http:\/\/warbirdsnews.com\/warbird-restorations\/bristol-blenheim-flies.html\">only flying example of the Bristol Blenheim<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Bristol Blenheim\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/47076196022\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7912\/47076196022_39af35372b_z.jpg\" alt=\"Bristol Blenheim\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Restored Bristol Blenheim (photo: George Land)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The story piqued my interest. Over the years I&#8217;ve seen occasional photos of aircraft converted into cars, trucks, buses, and motorized RVs. I decided to start collecting them. If you have photos of aircraft\/auto conversions, please share them with me!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Air-Minded: Terraplanes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/albums\/72157678751906088\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7864\/32185963077_1b3fd9d33f_z.jpg\" alt=\"Air-Minded: Terraplanes\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/32813412@N08\/sets\/72157678751906088\">Click here<\/a> to see My Flickr photo album, &#8220;Terraplanes.&#8221; I&#8217;ll add photos to the album as people send them to me, or when I come across new ones on my own.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Update (19 Feb 2019):<\/em><\/strong> new photos added today, including an old-school belly tank speedster, a land speed record car, and an airliner-to-bus conversion.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?page_id=14450\"><strong> back to the Air-Minded Index<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years I&#8217;ve seen occasional photos of aircraft converted into cars, trucks, buses, and motorized RVs. I decided to start collecting them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1960,1601],"tags":[2674],"class_list":["post-23513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-minded","category-photoblogging","tag-terraplanes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23513"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32655,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23513\/revisions\/32655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}