{"id":6627,"date":"2023-11-11T01:31:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T01:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/innovation-invention-an-engineering-change-that-saved-the-spitfire-inside-the-spitfire-factory\/"},"modified":"2023-11-11T01:31:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T01:31:30","slug":"innovation-invention-an-engineering-change-that-saved-the-spitfire-inside-the-spitfire-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/innovation-invention-an-engineering-change-that-saved-the-spitfire-inside-the-spitfire-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation &amp; Invention: An Engineering Change That Saved The Spitfire | Inside The Spitfire Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This episode takes us closer to the final deadline for the Spitfire&#8217;s completion date, however there&#8217;s something missing&#8230; the engine! <!--more--> Peter sets off to Gloucestershire, where the newly restored Merlin is about to be put through its paces.. but will it be up to Peter&#8217;s perfectionist standards? We also learn about a truly remarkable woman who saved the Spitfire from having engine problems during the war by inventing a solution the size of a thumb nail!<\/p>\n<p>Hidden away in a little-known workshop at one of Britain&#8217;s most important wartime airbases, a team of dedicated engineers and enthusiasts are working round the clock to bring a national icon back to life. Over the course of a year and \u00a32 million at stake, there&#8217;s no room for error as Peter Monk and his engineers try to turn a 1943 Mark IX Spitfire from rusty remains into the flying legend. This is the Spitfire Factory.<\/p>\n<p>\u25baSubscribe \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/wpc2Q1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/wpc2Q1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This episode takes us closer to the final deadline for the Spitfire&#8217;s completion date, however there&#8217;s something missing&#8230; the engine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}