{"id":1756,"date":"2011-09-21T17:01:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T16:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2011-09-22T09:10:30","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T08:10:30","slug":"university-of-the-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=1756","title":{"rendered":"University of the aircraft?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/concorde.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1757\" title=\"concorde\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/concorde.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"95\" \/><\/a>It is as old as the OU (it first took to the air in 1969) has iconic status and like the OU, it found that there was not a universal welcome in the USA. Having received a \u00a3840,000 grant in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-bristol-13452615\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.bbc.co.uk');\">May<\/a>\u00a02011 Concorde has now been\u00a0deemed worthy of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-bristol-14992570\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.bbc.co.uk');\">museum<\/a>. Unlike the transport for an elite the\u00a0OU is still on the air. Perhaps it deserves its own museum\u00a0as well? There are some items on display near the archives (located in the library on theWalton Hall campus) but further suggestions as to what (or possibly who) should be the star exhibits in such a museum are welcomed.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is as old as the OU (it first took to the air in 1969) has iconic status and like the OU, it found that there was not a universal welcome in the USA. Having received a \u00a3840,000 grant in May\u00a02011 Concorde has now been\u00a0deemed worthy of a museum. Unlike the transport for an elite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,167,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-of-the-ou","category-promotion","category-walton-hall-campus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1758,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions\/1758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}