{"id":17386,"date":"2012-04-23T00:30:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T03:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=17386"},"modified":"2012-04-22T23:42:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T02:42:41","slug":"the-fighter-pilot-elephant-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/23\/the-fighter-pilot-elephant-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fighter Pilot Elephant Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five different\u00a0fighter squadrons at Kunsan Air Base, Korea, recently loaded every available aircraft in its go-to-war configuration and then conducted an “elephant walk”<\/a> — taxiing slowly down the runway in a mass formation and back to parking.<\/p>\n

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In theory, the elephant walk tests every part of a unit’s ability to go to war — including loading live weapons — except actually launching\/flying.\u00a0 It proves that, if called upon, a unit can generate (almost) every aircraft in its combat configuration on a specific timeline.\u00a0 While it might seem odd to taxi around the field, even that “wrings out” possible issues with ordnance, aircraft, and even personnel.<\/p>\n

A unit at Seymour Johnson recently did an elephant walk as well, except they weren’t loaded with a combat load, and they then turned around and launched the sorties on their planned training missions.\u00a0 So while the picture looks neat, the objective of the runway taxi is unclear — except for the obvious photo op<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Note the difference in the skies.\u00a0 That’s a good <\/em>day in Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Five different\u00a0fighter squadrons at Kunsan Air Base, Korea, recently loaded every available aircraft in its go-to-war configuration and then conducted an “elephant walk” — taxiing slowly down the runway in a mass formation and back to parking. In theory, the elephant walk tests every part of a unit’s ability to go to war — including loading live weapons — except […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3164,535,186,5285,89,2696,2,3165],"class_list":["post-17386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-elephant-walk","tag-f-15e","tag-f-16","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-korea","tag-kunsan-air-base","tag-military","tag-seymour-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}