{"id":2150,"date":"2016-02-15T08:56:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T16:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2150"},"modified":"2016-02-15T08:56:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T16:56:19","slug":"introducing-slippy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2150","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Slippy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve mentioned my new airplane a couple<\/a> times<\/a> on here, though not as often as I probably should have.\u00a0 I’ve omitted a whole saga with getting a brake leak fixed and a particularly exciting go-around caused because I let some pilot-induced oscillations get the better of me on the ground.<\/p>\n

Today’s post is where I come clean about another facet of the aircraft and my relation to it.\u00a0 I seem to have given her a name.<\/p>\n

I haven’t named any of my previous vehicles.\u00a0 Not even my beloved Archer on which I cut my aviation teeth.\u00a0 I laways referred to her by her callsign or as “The Archer.”\u00a0 Fanciful names were not for me.<\/p>\n

This plane is different.\u00a0 It’s quirky nature and charmed life combined in my head to form a name.\u00a0 This happened without my intention – or really permission.\u00a0 I slowly started thinking of her as Sleipnir<\/a>.\u00a0 If you’re not a comics fan or familiar with Norse mythology, that’s the name of Odin<\/a>‘s eight-legged flying horse.\u00a0 Sleipnir is called the best of all horses, and that’s how I think of the Viking.\u00a0 It stuck in my head and it’s become the name of the plane to me.<\/p>\n

I finally sheepishly mentioned that I’d named it to Brenda – who names all her vehicles – and she somehow improved it.\u00a0 “You mean we could call her Slippy for short?”<\/p>\n

That’s perfect.\u00a0 It’s got the right light-hearted ring to it, and alludes to the slick airframe that helps Slippy go so fast.\u00a0 So, Sleipnir – Slippy for short – is our new girl.\u00a0 (Yeah, planes are female. That seems true to me in the same way that GNU software is green.\u00a0 I don’t understand<\/em> it, mind you…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve mentioned my new airplane a couple times on here, though not as often as I probably should have.\u00a0 I’ve omitted a whole saga with getting a brake leak fixed and a particularly exciting go-around caused because I let some pilot-induced oscillations get the better of me on the ground. Today’s post is where I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-blogbook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2151,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions\/2151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}