{"id":6445,"date":"2023-01-17T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/01\/17\/a-true-measure-of-a-jean-shepherd-fan-did-you-fly-one-of-his-ornithopters\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:54","slug":"a-true-measure-of-a-jean-shepherd-fan-did-you-fly-one-of-his-ornithopters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/01\/17\/a-true-measure-of-a-jean-shepherd-fan-did-you-fly-one-of-his-ornithopters\/","title":{"rendered":"A True Measure of a Jean Shepherd Fan: Did You Fly One of His Ornithopters?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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I did. Shep had as a sponsor the maker of a flying bird. It was a wind-up ornithopter powered by a rubber band. It was kind of like the one in the picture, but I remember mine as being yellow. My dad got it for me after hearing Shep talk about it on his program. Wow, what a sponsor! Shep must have made DOZENS of dollars from that deal! <\/b><\/div>\n

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It looks like Shep was pitching this thing in 1972, which was my first year in high school. <\/b><\/div>\n
https:\/\/www.flicklives.com\/index.php?pg=331&recno=5619<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n

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It took some coaxing and adjustment, but it did fly. <\/b><\/div>\n

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My thinking about this was prompted by an article on Hack-A-Day: <\/b><\/div>\n
https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2023\/01\/16\/flappy-bird-drone-edition\/<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n

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(I want to hear that program about the wedding on 75!)<\/b><\/div>\n

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EXCELSIOR!<\/b><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I did. Shep had as a sponsor the maker of a flying bird. It was a wind-up ornithopter powered by a rubber band. It was kind of like the one in the picture, but I remember mine as being yellow. My dad got it for me after hearing Shep talk about it on his program. … Continue reading “A True Measure of a Jean Shepherd Fan: Did You Fly One of His Ornithopters?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aircraft","category-jean-shepherd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6447,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6445\/revisions\/6447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}