{"id":204,"date":"2006-05-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azlro.org\/5\/2006\/05\/04\/land-rover-lr3-sat-nav-used-to-guide-cargo-plane\/"},"modified":"2006-05-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-04T00:00:00","slug":"land-rover-lr3-sat-nav-used-to-guide-cargo-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azlro.org\/5\/land-rover-lr3-sat-nav-used-to-guide-cargo-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Land Rover LR3 sat-nav used to guide cargo plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/articles\/47.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"152\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As part of its &#8216;Designed for the Extraordinary&#8217; marketing campaign, the adventurous folks at Land Rover rolled a 2006 LR3 onboard a C-130 &#8216;Hercules&#8217; cargo plane, and then the flight crew used the car&#8217;s nav system to navigate the plane from Nice, France to the island of Corsica.<\/p>\n<p> In true over-the-top marketing-speak, Sally Eastwood, VP marketing for Land Rover North America, says, &#8216;This is a truly extraordinary demonstration of the capability and adventure inherent within all Land Rover vehicles, and the LR3 in particular.&#8217; We&#8217;re not sure we&#8217;d go quite that far, but the innovative P.R. stunt should make for a cool TV spot for those interested in the &#8216;off road&#8217; capabilities of the LR3&#8217;s nav system.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[Sources: Land Rover; AdWeek, Autoblog]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/articles\/47.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"152\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As part of its &#8216;Designed for the Extraordinary&#8217; marketing campaign, the adventurous folks at Land Rover rolled a 2006 LR3 onboard a C-130 &#8216;Hercules&#8217; cargo plane, and then the flight crew used the car&#8217;s nav system to navigate the plane from Nice, France to the island of Corsica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azlro.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azlro.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azlro.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azlro.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azlro.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azlro.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azlro.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azlro.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azlro.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}