{"id":1200,"date":"2003-08-16T00:04:23","date_gmt":"2003-08-16T04:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/08\/16\/flying-blind-in-a-microlight\/"},"modified":"2003-08-16T00:04:23","modified_gmt":"2003-08-16T04:04:23","slug":"flying-blind-in-a-microlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/16\/flying-blind-in-a-microlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying Blind in a Microlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a646'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"159\" height=\"202\">\n<div align=\"justify\">      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/ultralight.jpg\" width=\"271\" height=\"204\"> <\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"10\">\n<p>\n      <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"470\">\n<p>Possibly inspired by Mike Newman, who last week <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/13#a612\">set<br \/>\n          a world blind driving speed record<\/a> (144 mph), equally<br \/>\n        blind Miles Hilton-Barbe is preparing to become the first sightless person to<br \/>\n        fly unassisted across the English Channel in a microlight plane.<\/p>\n<p>      The 54-year-old, who has been blind for 20 years,  said: &quot;If I can<br \/>\n      show that flying a microlight is possible for a blind man, then maybe I<br \/>\n      can inspire someone to take that first step into<br \/>\n      the unknown to achieve their dreams.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_809599.html\">from<br \/>\n      Ananova<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Possibly inspired by Mike Newman, who last week set a world blind driving speed record (144 mph), equally blind Miles Hilton-Barbe is preparing to become the first sightless person to fly unassisted across the English Channel in a microlight plane. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/16\/flying-blind-in-a-microlight\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}