{"id":4726,"date":"2014-09-21T19:23:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T18:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/?p=4726"},"modified":"2014-09-21T19:23:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T18:23:33","slug":"legends-true-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/legends-true-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Legends &#8211; the  true  meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday we\u00a0 had a visitor\u00a0 to the\u00a0 hangar. John Cronin was a Fleet Air Arm pilot in 1945, completed his flying training on the Cornell and Harvard before going on to the Martlet (Wildcat) He managed eight deck landings on an aircraft carrier with a collapsed oleo \u201con the wrong side\u201d which made the take-off swing even worse than normal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4727\" src=\"http:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/John-Cronin-web.jpg\" alt=\"John-Cronin-web\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/John-Cronin-web.jpg 800w, https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/John-Cronin-web-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/John-Cronin-web-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He then was posted to Tambaran near Madras (now Chennai) to fly the Hellcat, in preparation for the invasion of Japan. Whilst there, however, the hostilities came to an end and John gratefully returned to the UK and his life as an insurance salesman. Now 89 years young, he is still active, driving himself and brother Tom to Duxford today and although not able to get into the Hellcat this time it was a great pleasure to welcome him again.<\/p>\n<p>You\u00a0 can see\u00a0 our  aircraft\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Legends such as John \u00a0 flew\u00a0 below as the aircraft are \u00a0 nearly as active as John (including the Hellcat). Video as\u00a0 caught at the\u00a0\u00a0 Duxford September\u00a0 show.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/106739976\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday we\u00a0 had a visitor\u00a0 to the\u00a0 hangar. John Cronin was a Fleet Air Arm pilot in 1945, completed his flying training on the Cornell and Harvard before going on to the Martlet (Wildcat) He managed eight deck landings on an aircraft carrier with a collapsed oleo \u201con the wrong side\u201d which made the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,23,81,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corsair","category-grumman-bearcat","category-grumman-hellcat","category-hawk","category-kittty-hawk-p-40f"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726","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=4726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4729,"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726\/revisions\/4729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}