{"id":152135,"date":"2024-11-26T23:18:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T13:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/charles-rolls-the-rolls-royce-co-founder-was-also-the-first-british-air-fatality-in-a-wright-flyer\/"},"modified":"2024-11-26T23:18:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T13:18:07","slug":"charles-rolls-the-rolls-royce-co-founder-was-also-the-first-british-air-fatality-in-a-wright-flyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=152135","title":{"rendered":"Charles Rolls: The Rolls-Royce Co-Founder Was Also The First British Air Fatality In A Wright Flyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Rolls, co-founder of             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58306\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/rolls-royce\/\"  >Rolls-Royce<\/a><\/span>, is one of the most interesting             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"258568\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/aviationpioneers\/\"  >pioneers<\/a><\/span> in aviation. He was also one of the first people to be killed in an aviation accident &#8211;         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2021795\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/wright-flyer-components-in-space-timeline\/\" >by the legendary Wright Flyer no less<\/a><\/span>. His untimely death meant he would have little input into the development of the company that still bears his name &#8211; although he accomplished a number of firsts in aviation and British history before his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Rolls only briefly co-lead Rolls-Royce, and before his untimely death, he did much to pioneer British aviation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,408,4942,701],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-history","category-rolls-royce","category-united-kingdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152136,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152135\/revisions\/152136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}