{"id":9570,"date":"2020-01-22T08:16:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T11:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/?p=9570"},"modified":"2020-01-22T12:05:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T15:05:43","slug":"when-mercedes-built-flying-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/22\/when-mercedes-built-flying-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"When Mercedes built flying cars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Le Mans 1999 - Peter Dumbreck&#039;s HUGE accident! Mercedes CLR-GT1 CRASH!\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e21ZjwZGjiQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, in 1999 Mercedes-Benz built a flying car for Le Mans. Well, in all honesty I don&#8217;t think they <em>specifically <\/em>made a wingless airplane, but that CLR took flight. Despite the horrific (and absurd) crash, Peter Dumbreck walked away unscathed, a proof of Mercedes ruggedness. Though maybe they should consider a built-in parachute. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">PS: That was the <em>second <\/em>CLR to reach for the clouds at La Sarthe. During practice on the Friday of the race Mark Weber flipped car #4 \ud83d\udeeb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, in 1999 Mercedes-Benz built a flying car for Le Mans. Well, in all honesty I don&#8217;t think they specifically made a wingless airplane, but that CLR took flight. Despite the horrific (and absurd) crash, Peter Dumbreck walked away unscathed, a proof of Mercedes ruggedness. Though maybe they should consider a built-in parachute. PS: That &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/22\/when-mercedes-built-flying-cars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When Mercedes built flying cars&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,23,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-film","category-history","category-le-mans","post_format-post-format-video"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9574,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9570\/revisions\/9574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}