{"id":12753,"date":"2003-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-01T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/2003\/retrofit-to-tilt-down-tower-design\/"},"modified":"2003-01-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-01T08:00:00","slug":"retrofit-to-tilt-down-tower-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/2003\/retrofit-to-tilt-down-tower-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrofit to Tilt Down Tower Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"project-sponsor-dept-year\"><span class=\"project-sponsor\">Federal Aviation Administration\/Tower<\/span> <span class=\"project-dept-year\">Engineering, 2002-03<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"project-team\">\n<p><strong>Liaison(s):<\/strong> Gary Rixmann<br \/>\n<strong>Advisor(s):<\/strong> Patrick Little<br \/>\n<strong>Students(s):<\/strong> Benjamin Utela (PM),  Matthew Keller,  Jorge Escobar,  Eric Swope<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"project-abstract\">\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has asked the Clinic team to retrofit the current tower for their Automated Weather Observing System (AWOS). The current AWOS design has a tilt-down pole, which allows access to the sensors, but is not adaptable to changes in sensor weight. The team will design, prototype, and test a retrofit modification to provide these towers with adjustable counterweighting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Aviation Administration\/Tower Engineering, 2002-03 Liaison(s): Gary Rixmann Advisor(s): Patrick Little Students(s): Benjamin Utela (PM), Matthew Keller, Jorge Escobar, Eric [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[496],"class_list":["post-12753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","tag-federal-aviation-administration-tower"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}