{"id":5405,"date":"2016-08-29T15:02:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T07:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/29\/tired-of-driving-to-work-this-man-built-a-plane\/"},"modified":"2016-08-29T15:02:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T07:02:13","slug":"tired-of-driving-to-work-this-man-built-a-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/29\/tired-of-driving-to-work-this-man-built-a-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Tired of driving to work, this man built a plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f191396%2fgettyimages-594747316\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/dTHay2dEhThnNkF29KoDjfJggHw=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F191396%2FGettyImages-594747316.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Tired+of+driving+to+work%2C+this+man+built+a+plane&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fman-builds-plane-for-work%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fman-builds-plane-for-work%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Every weekday, weather permitting, Frantisek Hadrava throws on a white scarf and a leather helmet before he takes the scenic route to work.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of commuting by car, Hadrava has built himself a speedier option: an ultra lightweight plane called Vampira.<\/p>\n<p>The 45-year old from the Czech village of Zdikov cut his 14-minute commute to his 6 a.m. shift at a local factory in half. And since he&#8217;s considerate of those sleeping below, he takes the long way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By plane, it would take around four to five minutes if I flew directly, but I take a bit of a detour so that I don\u2019t disturb people early in the morning. 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Instead of commuting by car, Hadrava has built himself a speedier option: an ultra lightweight plane called &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/29\/tired-of-driving-to-work-this-man-built-a-plane\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3782,1150,754,2274,735],"class_list":["post-5405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-commute","tag-photo-stories","tag-pics","tag-plane","tag-watercooler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}