{"id":862,"date":"2007-02-20T18:46:58","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T18:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=862"},"modified":"2007-02-20T18:46:58","modified_gmt":"2007-02-20T18:46:58","slug":"a_fellow_warbird_fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/02\/20\/a_fellow_warbird_fan\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fellow Warbird Fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the photoblogger <a href=\"http:\/\/telstarlogistics.typepad.com\/telstarlogistics\/\">Telstar Logistics<\/a> shares with us pictures from <a href=\"http:\/\/telstarlogistics.typepad.com\/telstarlogistics\/2007\/02\/time_travel_in_.html\">his ride aboard the B-17 <i>Nine o&#8217; Nine<\/i><\/a>, a 60-year-old bomber aircraft operated by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collingsfoundation.org\/menu.htm\">Collings Foundation<\/a> out of Stow, Massachusetts. You may recall that I took a ride aboard another Collings aircraft, a B-24 called &#8212; at that time, anyway &#8212; the <i>Dragon and His Tail<\/i>, and I absolutely concur with Telstar&#8217;s assertion that one of these flights is worth every penny of the $400 charge. It&#8217;s an amazing thrill, and the closest thing to actual time travel I&#8217;ve ever experienced.<\/p>\n<p>Telstar&#8217;s complete photo set is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/telstar\/sets\/72057594110942402\/\">here<\/a>; photos of my ride on the <i>Dragon<\/i> are <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonbennion.com\/photos2\/main.php?g2_itemId=3387\">here<\/a> (just for comparison&#8217;s sake, of course!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the photoblogger Telstar Logistics shares with us pictures from his ride aboard the B-17 Nine o&#8217; Nine, a 60-year-old bomber aircraft operated by the Collings Foundation out of Stow, Massachusetts. You may recall that I took a ride aboard another Collings aircraft, a B-24 called &#8212; at that time, anyway &#8212; the Dragon and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esoterica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","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=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}