{"id":713,"date":"2013-07-29T23:01:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T23:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rotaxnews.net\/?p=713"},"modified":"2016-05-26T13:05:56","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T13:05:56","slug":"day-one-of-airventure-2013-people-and-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rotaxnews.net\/?p=713","title":{"rendered":"AirVenture 2013 &#8211; People and Planes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_715\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-715\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rotaxnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/DSC_0942.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-715 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px;\" title=\"Christian Mundigler (BRP) holding the Dr. August Raspet Memorial Award.\" alt=\"DSC_0942\" src=\"https:\/\/rotaxnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/DSC_0942-240x300.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-715\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christian Mundigler (BRP-Rotax) holding the Dr. August Raspet Memorial Award.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The first day of AirVenture 2013 was quite a success for the folks in the independent Rotax Service and Training Centre booth.<\/p>\n<p>Not only were there a large amount of visitors, but Rotax&#8217;s own Christian Mundigler accepted the prestigious Dr. August Raspet Memorial Award on their behalf.\u00a0 This award honors &#8220;a person or organization making an outstanding contribution to the advancement of light aircraft design&#8221;\u00a0 Previous winners include the likes of Burt Rutan,\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: small;\">Dick VanGrunsven and <span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Ken Krueger<\/span>.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: small;\">What is also amazing is that in it&#8217;s 52 year history, the award has only been given to 4 companies or groups.\u00a0 Rotax was honored not only for it&#8217;s new 912iS and the remarkable fuel consumption it has for an aircraft engine, but also for it&#8217;s long history of innovation and excellence. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Below you will find pictures of the interesting people and planes we came into contact with today! Click on them to see a lager image, or press the slideshow button.<br \/>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first day of AirVenture 2013 was quite a success for the folks in the independent Rotax Service and Training&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-events-section","wpcat-6-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rotaxnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rotaxnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rotaxnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rotaxnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rotaxnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/rotaxnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"https:\/\/rotaxnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rotaxnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rotaxnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rotaxnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}