{"id":2648,"date":"2014-04-13T19:23:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T18:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/?p=2648"},"modified":"2014-04-13T19:23:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T18:23:08","slug":"back-aeroplanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/back-aeroplanes\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to aeroplanes then"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we\u00a0 had a\u00a0 visit from Chip Hailey.\u00a0 the son of 1st Lt David R Hailey who was part of the 338th FS, 55th FG who flew P-38&#8217;s and then converted to the P-51.\u00a0 Lt David R Hailey\u00a0flew as wingman to Capt Frank Birtciel, who flew the original Miss Velma.\u00a0 Chip\u00a0 had\u00a0 some\u00a0 fantastic\u00a0 stories and memories.\u00a0 He is\u00a0\u00a0 holding his\u00a0 fathers\u00a0 flying helmet\u00a0 while\u00a0 standing in front of our\u00a0 Miss Velma.\u00a0 (Chip still\u00a0 visits\u00a0\u00a0 Velma!).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2649\" alt=\"chip  hailey with  Miss Velma\" src=\"http:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/chip2-168x300.jpg\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/chip2-168x300.jpg 168w, https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/chip2.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we\u00a0 had a\u00a0 visit from Chip Hailey.\u00a0 the son of 1st Lt David R Hailey who was part of the 338th FS, 55th FG who flew P-38&#8217;s and then converted to the P-51.\u00a0 Lt David R Hailey\u00a0flew as wingman to Capt Frank Birtciel, who flew the original Miss Velma.\u00a0 Chip\u00a0 had\u00a0 some\u00a0 fantastic\u00a0 stories [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2650,"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions\/2650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}