{"id":2596,"date":"2010-04-17T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T01:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/17\/aeronca-champ\/"},"modified":"2010-04-17T18:29:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T01:29:45","slug":"aeronca-champ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/17\/aeronca-champ\/","title":{"rendered":"Aeronca Champ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/aeronca.jpg' title='aeronca.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/aeronca.thumbnail.png' alt='aeronca.jpg' class='right' \/><\/a>It&#8217;s been a lot of years since I piloted one of these. It&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aeronca_Champion\">Aeronca Champion<\/a> or &#8216;Champ&#8217; for short. These were built after the second world war and were in direct competition with the Piper J-3 Cub. I have flown and instructed in both types and, believe me, they are a lot of fun to fly.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: Aeronca Champion<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We were shopping in a strip mall near Torrance Zamperini Field when this nicely painted Champ flew over us on a short approach to runway two-niner left. A wave of nostalgia went through me as it sent me back in time to the days of dead reckoning, seat-of-the-pants, needle, ball and airspeed flying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a lot of years since I piloted one of these. It&#8217;s an Aeronca Champion or &#8216;Champ&#8217; for short. These were built after the second&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerospace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}