{"id":517,"date":"2015-05-28T12:16:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T17:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/?p=517"},"modified":"2015-05-28T12:17:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T17:17:51","slug":"aerospace-book-sparks-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/2015\/05\/28\/aerospace-book-sparks-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Aerospace Book Sparks Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">This year Honda will put a new business jet airplane into service in the U.S., pending FAA approval.\u00a0 The aircraft is touted for the latest in airplane innovation, specifically the placement of the engines over the wings unlike conventional business jets with the engines near the tail.\u00a0 What does this development have to do with libraries?\u00a0 The connection is with books.\u00a0 According to a story in the <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000\">Wall Street Journal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">, in 1986 Honda sent engineer Michimasa Fujino to Mississippi State University to design an experimental aircraft.\u00a0 While dong his research, he read a <\/span><b>1930\u2019s book on aerodynamics<\/b><span style=\"color: #000000\">, presumably found in a library.\u00a0 Fujino said that the principles of aerodynamics detailed in the book became the inspiration for the design of the new Honda jet.\u00a0 Reading engineering books, even some very old, can change minds and our technology.\u00a0 Great news for books and libraries!\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year Honda will put a new business jet airplane into service in the U.S., pending FAA approval.\u00a0 The aircraft is touted for the latest in airplane innovation, specifically the placement of the engines over the wings unlike conventional business jets with the engines near the tail.\u00a0 What does this development have to do with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/2015\/05\/28\/aerospace-book-sparks-innovation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aerospace Book Sparks Innovation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,12],"tags":[20345,20346,20347],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collections","category-engineering","tag-aerodynamics","tag-honda","tag-jet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}