{"id":4003,"date":"2021-03-21T11:19:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T16:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/?p=4003"},"modified":"2021-03-21T11:35:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T16:35:42","slug":"y-54-dragon-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/y-54-dragon-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Y-54 Dragon Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/boats\/dragon_fly\/01-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the mid 1970s, Steve Ball of San Diego, California designed and built this unique 21&#8242; boat and powered it with a Fiat engine to compete in the 850-cc hydro class. They went on to set a World Straightaway Speed Record in 1975 averaging 101.47 mph through the trap. More pics by Phil Kunz are <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/boats\/dragon_fly\/dragon_fly.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/boats\/dragon_fly\/dragon_fly.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the mid 1970s, Steve Ball of San Diego, California designed and built this unique 21&#8242; boat and powered it with a Fiat engine to compete in the 850-cc hydro class. They went on to set a World Straightaway Speed Record in 1975 averaging 101.47 mph through the trap. More &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-4003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003","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=4003"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4007,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003\/revisions\/4007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}