{"id":131284,"date":"2016-08-17T05:16:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/17\/wind-wings.html"},"modified":"2016-08-17T05:16:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:16:06","slug":"wind-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/17\/wind-wings.html","title":{"rendered":"Wind wings!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first car was a 1971 Super Beetle. And I learned (especially in a non-air conditioned car) the glory of wind wings (or whatever you called them). Nothing was better at directing blasts of outside air into the car to cool(ish) the driver and passengers off.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, air conditioning (and, maybe, security concerns) helped kill them off. But I&#39;d run the a\/c a lot less, I suspect, if my current car had these.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2016\/08\/16\/things-i-miss-vent-windows.html?utm_content=bufferd8429&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=plus.google.com&#038;utm_campaign=buffer'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/B8qn9IY9ub5IioBsj5h5azwEWd4m_3iCgMARpVNGIlR_5CvA82scYJ7ddP94Ah36ex-q8CPIGN2hdQMxGzmTVUuoGB4V2bjWRiG93RUiehbFYCfI=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2016\/08\/16\/things-i-miss-vent-windows.html?utm_content=bufferd8429&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=plus.google.com&#038;utm_campaign=buffer'>Things I miss: Vent Windows<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThings I miss: Vent Windows\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/BEXQEqxtpXX'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first car was a 1971 Super Beetle. And I learned (especially in a non-air conditioned car) the glory of wind wings (or whatever you called them). Nothing was better at directing blasts of outside air into the car to cool(ish) the driver and passengers off. Yes, air conditioning (and, maybe, security concerns) helped kill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/17\/wind-wings.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wind wings!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8657,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/09\/13\/tomcat_on_its_n.html","url_meta":{"origin":131284,"position":0},"title":"Tomcat on its Ninth Life","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Sep-05 8:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"The F-14 Tomcat was the first \"modern\" fighter for me, replacing the Nam-era F-4 Phantoms. 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