{"id":6639,"date":"2010-08-10T00:35:19","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T06:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=6639"},"modified":"2010-08-08T23:49:19","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T05:49:19","slug":"steve-saint-builds-flying-missionary-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/10\/steve-saint-builds-flying-missionary-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Saint Builds Flying Missionary Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Saint, son of martyred missionary Nate Saint, and the organization he founded called i-Tec (The Indigenous People&#8217;s Technology and Education Ministry Center) have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocala.com\/article\/20100721\/articles\/7211007\">created a flying car<\/a> inspired by humanitarian and missionary needs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Saint, the founder of Dunnellon-based i-Tec&#8230;said the idea for a short takeoff and landing all-terrain car, plane and airboat grew out of his family&#8217;s missionary work in remote areas of Ecuador.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Saint&#8217;s <em>Maverick<\/em> is a dune-buggy type car that can be mounted on pontoons or underneath a wing parachute, after which it is propelled by a six foot propeller at the rear of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Maverick Sport flies at a fixed 40 mph using a 36-foot-wide ram wing, or wing-shaped parachute, deployed on a 27-foot mast and stored on top of the car during road use.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Maverick was at the experimental <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airventure.org\/index.html\">aircraft fly-in at OshKosh<\/a> this past week (the Experimental Aircraft Association&#8217;s 2010 AirVenture), though it couldn&#8217;t fly in due to paperwork issues with the FAA.\u00a0 They documented their drive from Florida to Wisconsin.\u00a0 More information is available at their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mavericklsa.com\/\">Maverick LSA website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Saint, son of martyred missionary Nate Saint, and the organization he founded called i-Tec (The Indigenous People&#8217;s Technology and Education Ministry Center) have created a flying car inspired by humanitarian and missionary needs: Saint, the founder of Dunnellon-based i-Tec&#8230;said the idea for a short takeoff and landing all-terrain car, plane and airboat grew out of his family&#8217;s missionary work [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[13,853,854,851,22,852,850],"class_list":["post-6639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missionary-aviation","tag-aircraft","tag-eaa","tag-i-tec","tag-maverick","tag-missionary","tag-oshkosh","tag-steve-saint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}