{"id":6408,"date":"2026-08-03T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6408"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:25:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:25:37","slug":"vtol-1954","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6408","title":{"rendered":"VTOL &#8211; 1954"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13017\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13017\" class=\"wp-image-13017 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Helicopter-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"Helicopter\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13017\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Helicopter<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Land) craft was demonstrated for the first time in 1954<\/strong>. Today\u2019s helicopters are the most popular form of VTOL, but other forms do exist. Children can learn how helicopters work at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.explainthatstuff.com\/helicopter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.explainthatstuff.com\/helicopter.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Land) craft was demonstrated for the first time in 1954. Today\u2019s helicopters are the most popular form of VTOL, but other forms do exist. Children can learn how helicopters work at:\u00a0http:\/\/www.explainthatstuff.com\/helicopter.html.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5343,5764,961,960,959],"class_list":["post-6408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5343","tag-august-3","tag-helicopter","tag-vertical-take-off-and-land","tag-vtol","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6408"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29602,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408\/revisions\/29602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}