{"id":269,"date":"2005-06-14T17:13:03","date_gmt":"2005-06-14T17:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=269"},"modified":"2005-06-14T17:13:03","modified_gmt":"2005-06-14T17:13:03","slug":"speaking_of_airplanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2005\/06\/14\/speaking_of_airplanes\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of Airplanes…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I caught a few seconds of video on the news last night of a B-17 being welcomed to Ogden. “Odd,” I thought, “the Aluminum Overcast<\/i> isn’t supposed to be here until the weekend<\/a>.” I figured I must’ve misinterpreted what I was seeing and paid it no further mind.<\/p>\n

This morning, however, I got an e-mail from my fellow warbird enthusiast Dave. Apparently, the bird on the news last night is a different B-17 called the Sentimental Journey<\/i>. A little googling reveals that this B-17, which is supposed to be the most fully restored example around, is owned and operated by the Arizona Wing of the Confederate Air Force<\/a>, a nation-wide volunteer group dedicated to preserving old planes in their flyable condition. It’s on display right now at the Ogden-Hinckley Airport and will be open to the public, 9:00 AM to 8 PM, through Thursday. The plane will depart on Friday morning, the same day the EAA<\/a>‘s B-17, Aluminum Overcast<\/i>, arrives. As Dave said in his message to me, “This could be a terrific opportunity to see not one, but two B-17s within the same week!”<\/p>\n

(If the timing works out right, they might both be on the ground at the same time, a spectacle rarely seen since the ’40s.)<\/p>\n

The CAF requests a $5.00 donation to tour the Sentimental Journey<\/i>, and flight opportunities are available. Once again, I can’t stress how amazing that experience is; if you have the extra cash, by all means, take a ride aboard one of these historic planes. You won’t regret it.<\/p>\n

You can learn more about the Sentimental Journey<\/i> here<\/a>, and don’t forget that the Aluminum Overcast<\/i><\/a> will be at the same airport this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I caught a few seconds of video on the news last night of a B-17 being welcomed to Ogden. “Odd,” I thought, “the Aluminum Overcast isn’t supposed to be here until the weekend.” I figured I must’ve misinterpreted what I was seeing and paid it no further mind. This morning, however, I got an e-mail […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esoterica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}