{"id":1617,"date":"2013-04-10T04:56:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T04:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2013-04-10T04:56:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T04:56:52","slug":"kickstarting-a-scale-version-of-the-horizontal-in-line-launch-staging-hills-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1617","title":{"rendered":"Kickstarting a scale version of the Horizontal In Line Launch Staging (HILLS) vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/exospace.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Luther<\/a> and the HILLS team have opened a Kickstarter campaign to fund the building of a scale model version of their <em>Horizontal In Line Launch Staging (HILLS)<\/em> vehicle concept:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/hillsspace\/hills-space-plane\" target=\"_d\">H.I.L.L.S. SPACE PLANE by David I. Luther \u2014 Kickstarter<\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/hillsspace\/hills-space-plane\/widget\/video.html\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/0faa7f58ff81156f158b381a927a3807_large1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"0faa7f58ff81156f158b381a927a3807_large[1]\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/0faa7f58ff81156f158b381a927a3807_large1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"241\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/1940e06875fbbc5db7aedd1dc5dc9174_large1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1619\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=1619\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/1940e06875fbbc5db7aedd1dc5dc9174_large1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"700,338\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"1940e06875fbbc5db7aedd1dc5dc9174_large[1]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/1940e06875fbbc5db7aedd1dc5dc9174_large1.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1619\" alt=\"1940e06875fbbc5db7aedd1dc5dc9174_large[1]\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/1940e06875fbbc5db7aedd1dc5dc9174_large1.jpg\" width=\"497\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/1940e06875fbbc5db7aedd1dc5dc9174_large1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/1940e06875fbbc5db7aedd1dc5dc9174_large1-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Luther and the HILLS team have opened a Kickstarter campaign to fund the building of a scale model version of their Horizontal In Line Launch Staging (HILLS) vehicle concept:\u00a0 H.I.L.L.S. 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