{"id":3437,"date":"2019-05-19T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/?p=3437"},"modified":"2019-05-19T11:31:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T16:31:00","slug":"red-witch-a-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/red-witch-a-56\/","title":{"rendered":"RED WITCH A-56"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1100\" height=\"867\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2-red_witch_web.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2-red_witch_web.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2-red_witch_web-768x605.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2-red_witch_web-381x300.jpg 381w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> John O&#8217;Mara (of New York) built this radical design for this hydroplane in the late 1940s in Dayton, Ohio. The boat was built using magnesium sheeting over a wood frame design. \u00a0We  don&#8217;t know where the idea for this design came from. It could have well been one of those ideas that got started on a the back of a bar room napkin. The boat registered in the A modified class in the A.P.B.A. to campaign under the name \/ number <strong>Red Witch A-56. \u00a0<\/strong>The boat&#8217;s design entails having the driver to lay flat on the bottom of the boat and steering with his feet.  Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/boats\/red_witch\/red_witch.html\">here<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John O&#8217;Mara (of New York) built this radical design for this hydroplane in the late 1940s in Dayton, Ohio. The boat was built using magnesium sheeting over a wood frame design. \u00a0We don&#8217;t know where the idea for this design came from. It could have well been one of those &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3439,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437\/revisions\/3439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}