{"id":3574,"date":"2014-06-18T17:33:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T16:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/?p=3574"},"modified":"2014-06-21T09:09:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T08:09:34","slug":"surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"The Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is with great delight that we are able to confirm that we have been successful in gaining participation of the<\/p>\n<p><strong>Planes of Fame Boeing P-26 Peashooter<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This unique aircraft is crossing the Atlantic and Flying Legends will be the only opportunity to see this historic aircraft in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft will be located on the Flight Line so you can view at close quarters and will fly a choreographed solo display during the Flying Legends weekend of the 12<sup>th<\/sup>&amp;13<sup>th<\/sup> July at IWM Duxford.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3575\" src=\"http:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Peashooter-Pic-12.jpg\" alt=\"Peashooter\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Peashooter-Pic-12.jpg 800w, https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Peashooter-Pic-12-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Peashooter-Pic-12-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(photo: Michael O\u2019Leary)<\/p>\n<p>The Boeing P-26 Peashooter was the first all metal US Army fighter monoplane. 151 were built from 1932 to 1936 and these aircraft first saw combat flown by the Chinese on August 15<sup>th<\/sup> 1937. On this day, eight<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3576\" src=\"http:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Peashooter-Pic-23.jpg\" alt=\"Peashooter\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Peashooter-Pic-23.jpg 800w, https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Peashooter-Pic-23-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Peashooter-Pic-23-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(photo:Michael O\u2019Leary)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\nP-26 Peashooter\u2019s engaged twenty Japanese \u201cClaude\u201d bombers and scored two victories without loss.<\/p>\n<p>This aircraft, the only airworthy example in the world, was acquired by Ed Maloney in 1955 and is based at The Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, California.<\/p>\n<p>Book your tickets now to ensure you do not miss this unique opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with great delight that we are able to confirm that we have been successful in gaining participation of the Planes of Fame Boeing P-26 Peashooter. This unique aircraft is crossing the Atlantic and Flying Legends will be the only opportunity to see this historic aircraft in the UK. The aircraft will be located [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flying-legends"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574","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=3574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3597,"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions\/3597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}