{"id":2979,"date":"2013-03-17T19:56:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T00:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.15.223.162\/?p=2979"},"modified":"2013-03-18T15:28:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T20:28:47","slug":"hsw-t-28-takes-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/highskywing.org\/?p=2979","title":{"rendered":"HSW T-28 Takes Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, March 16th, the Wing’s T-28A (646) restoration project returned to the skies for the first time in several years. \u00a0The test flight was conducted by Col. Bob Keating at the controls. \u00a0Mark Haskin flew T-28 643 as chase and observer aircraft. \u00a0The flight was about 40 minutes with Bob reporting a few squawks, but the flight was a tremendous success. \u00a0Congratulations to all the hard working folks who have shed blood, sweat, and tears to get 646 back in the air. \u00a0Test flights will hopefully continue in short order. \u00a0Thank you to everyone who came out and supported this momentus occasion.<\/p>\n

Update: \u00a0A 5:45 minute video of the flight is now available.\u00a0646 First Flight<\/a>\u00a0(requires Quicktime<\/a> player)<\/span><\/p>\n

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On Saturday, March 16th, the Wing’s T-28A (646) restoration project returned to the skies for the first time in several years. \u00a0The test flight was conducted by Col. Bob Keating at the controls. \u00a0Mark Haskin flew T-28 643 as chase … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/highskywing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/highskywing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/highskywing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/highskywing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/highskywing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2979"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/highskywing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2982,"href":"http:\/\/highskywing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions\/2982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/highskywing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/highskywing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/highskywing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}