{"id":6308,"date":"2024-11-29T13:59:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T18:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=6308"},"modified":"2024-12-02T13:30:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T18:30:04","slug":"aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=6308","title":{"rendered":"Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dad was a career Navy officer so my family flew military transport to various bases overseas. At 7 years old, I remember flying a DC-4\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(or something similar) to Newfoundland. A few years later, we were on long round trip flights to and from the island of Guam on a (MATS) Lockheed Constellation<\/em><\/strong>. Ever since, I\u2019ve had a fascination for airplanes.<\/p>\n

On a west coast trip recently, we visited the Palm Springs Air Museum<\/em><\/strong> in California, where there was plenty to see.<\/p>\n

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Highlights for me included a replica\u00a0Memphis Belle<\/em><\/strong> used in filming the 1990 movie of the same name.<\/p>\n

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The B-17<\/strong><\/em> is powered by 4 nine-cylinder air-cooled radial engines. This bomber is undergoing extensive maintenance to be flown again for a living history experience.<\/p>\n

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Who wouldn’t love the graphics on this P-40 Warhawk Fighter?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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During World War II at 18 years old, our 41st President flew and bailed out of a TBM Avenger<\/strong><\/em> like this one.<\/p>\n

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Of personal interest was the museum\u2019s extensive collection of POW\/MIA Vietnam era bracelets. During that war, my brother-in-law flew as a navigator aboard an A-6A Intruder<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0off the USS Kitty Hawk<\/em><\/strong>. Returning from a mission over North Vietnam, Jim and his pilot were lost and listed MIA<\/strong>. After years of searching, remains were located and verified through DNA testing. 2006 he was brought home and buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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It was emotional to see 2 bracelets with Jim’s name and missing-in-action date. My family wore these for years in hopes of his coming home alive. He was 23 years old and the loss changed our family dynamic forever.<\/p>\n

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Dad was a career Navy officer so my family flew military transport to various bases overseas. At 7 years old, I remember flying a DC-4\u00a0(or something similar) to Newfoundland. A few years later, we were on long round trip flights to and from the island of Guam on a (MATS) Lockheed Constellation. Ever since, I\u2019ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,36,44,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-history","category-military","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6308"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6330,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6308\/revisions\/6330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}