{"id":5413,"date":"2015-02-06T18:01:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T18:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/?p=5413"},"modified":"2015-02-07T09:14:16","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T09:14:16","slug":"tearful-farewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/tearful-farewell\/","title":{"rendered":"A &#8220;tearful&#8221;  farewell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we waved a tearful farewell to a true friend as Grumman Hellcat F6F left Duxford en-route Southampton to its new home in the USA. As friends may remember the Hellcat arrived in the UK in 1990 in a less than auspicious colour scheme before its true history was known and finally recognised.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5418\" src=\"http:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cat3.jpg\" alt=\"cat3\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cat3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cat3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cat3-200x134.jpg 200w, https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cat3-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cat3-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cat3-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ready to\u00a0 roll on\u00a0 a frosty Friday\u00a0 morning<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5414\" src=\"http:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cat.jpg\" alt=\"cat\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cat.jpg 800w, https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cat-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cat-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cat-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cat-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cat-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and we are\u00a0 off.\u00a0 With an update\u00a0 from Friend\u00a0 Chris\u00a0 Gritt who\u00a0 reports this evening:\u00a0 &#8220;Have I just seen your Hellcat on the back of a lorry, heading down the M27?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5415\" src=\"http:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cat-1.jpg\" alt=\"cat-1\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cat-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cat-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cat-1-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cat-1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cat-1-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cat-1-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we waved a tearful farewell to a true friend as Grumman Hellcat F6F left Duxford en-route Southampton to its new home in the USA. As friends may remember the Hellcat arrived in the UK in 1990 in a less than auspicious colour scheme before its true history was known and finally recognised. &nbsp; Ready [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grumman-hellcat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413","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=5413"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5420,"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413\/revisions\/5420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fighter-collection.com\/cft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}