{"id":1441,"date":"2014-01-10T05:28:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T19:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/the-immortal-beaver-the-worlds-greatest-bush-plane\/"},"modified":"2014-01-10T05:28:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T19:28:24","slug":"the-immortal-beaver-the-worlds-greatest-bush-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/the-immortal-beaver-the-worlds-greatest-bush-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"The Immortal Beaver: The World&#8217;s Greatest Bush Plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Developed soon after World War II, the de Havilland Beaver has become one of the most successful and long-lived designs in aviation history. The Beaver was conceived as a \u0093half-ton flying pickup truck\u201d capable of setting down on land, water, and snow. Since its conception the Beaver has been adopted worldwide, becoming the floatplane of choice for island-hopping along the Pacific Northwest, flying into the Arctic, transporting missionaries and doctors into remote spots in Africa, and serving as a support aircraft in Antarctic expeditions. The Beaver also became \u0093the generals\u2019 Jeep\u201d during the Korean War \u0097 and the generals\u2019 favorite transport to fishing spots in peacetime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"amzBuyBtn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Immortal-Beaver-Worlds-Greatest\/dp\/1550547240%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAIFOIRPB6FXMBCQLA%26tag%3Dfoamboards-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1550547240\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/covertcontentwizard\/images\/amazon-buy1.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[ccw-atrib-link]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developed soon after World War II, the de Havilland Beaver has become one of the most successful and long-lived designs in aviation history. The Beaver was conceived as a \u0093half-ton flying pickup truck\u201d capable of setting down on land, water, and snow. Since its conception the Beaver has been adopted worldwide, becoming the floatplane of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1808,1810,1809,1807,35,524],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rc-airplanes","tag-beaver","tag-bush","tag-greatest","tag-immortal","tag-plane","tag-worlds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}