{"id":17084,"date":"2014-09-29T15:30:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T20:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/?p=17084"},"modified":"2023-04-04T09:42:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T15:42:06","slug":"a-flying-barn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/2014\/09\/29\/a-flying-barn\/","title":{"rendered":"A Flying Barn"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"This<\/a>
This view looks southeast from just south of the Ada Municipal Airport on our short media ride in a 1929 Ford Tri-Motor this afternoon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Once<\/a>
Once airborne, Lisa Bratcher felt a sense of elation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Seemingly fit to go along with my last post, I went on another media ride today, on a 1929\u00a0Ford Tri-Motor<\/a>, with many of my old media buddies.<\/p>\n

\"Explore<\/a>
Explore Ada videographer Will Boggs makes footage of our pilots.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Despite<\/a>
Despite its legend, there is nothing even remotely elegant about the Ford Tri-Motor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Brian<\/a>
Brian Brasier captures audio for his KCNP report.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The plane was exactly as I expected it; primitive, mechanical, loud, awkward. I’ve flown may planes and wanted to fly many more, but I had no desire to fly this one.<\/p>\n

It was a fun ride, however, and it’s always nice to see my media buddies and my pilot buddies.<\/p>\n

\"In<\/a>
In the front two rows of the Tri-Motor with me (left) are Explore Ada videographer Will Boggs, City of Ada spokesperson Lisa Bratcher, and KCNP radio journalist Brian Brasier, all longtime friends.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seemingly fit to go along with my last post, I went on another media ride today, on a 1929\u00a0Ford Tri-Motor, with many of my old media buddies. The plane was exactly as I expected it; primitive, mechanical, loud, awkward. I’ve flown may planes and wanted to fly many more, but I had no desire to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-flying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17084"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30353,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17084\/revisions\/30353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}