{"id":20855,"date":"2013-03-11T02:23:36","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T05:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=20855"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:44:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:44:37","slug":"an-inside-look-at-luke-field-1944","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/11\/an-inside-look-at-luke-field-1944\/","title":{"rendered":"An Inside Look at Luke Field, 1944"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/sir1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"303\" height=\"405\" \/><\/p>\n<p>John Mollison is an artist with a unique calling.\u00a0 To quote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnmollison.com\/www.johnmollison.com\/Writer_draw-er.html\">his website<\/a>, he<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>interview[s] old guys and draw[s] their airplanes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And he does a fine job of it.\u00a0 His website contains much of his work, including his current project.<\/p>\n<p>His site also contains some unique historical artifacts.\u00a0 Notably, he has <!--more-->a digitized copy of pilot training Class 44-A at Luke Field (now Luke Air Force Base).\u00a0 It is a <em>fascinating <\/em>look at the area and Army Air Corps of the times, including some pilot antics and politically incorrect references.\u00a0 It is\u00a0well worth a few minutes flipping through the short\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnmollison.com\/www.johnmollison.com\/Ephemera_files\/Sir%21.pdf\">PDF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/sir2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"421\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Mollison is an artist with a unique calling.\u00a0 To quote his website, he interview[s] old guys and draw[s] their airplanes. And he does a fine job of it.\u00a0 His website contains much of his work, including his current project. His site also contains some unique historical artifacts.\u00a0 Notably, he has<\/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":[5285,3786,3787,2],"class_list":["post-20855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-john-mollison","tag-luke-field","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20855","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=20855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}