{"id":25192,"date":"2013-08-20T00:29:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T03:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=25192"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:02:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:02:10","slug":"b-1-crashes-in-montana-crew-ejects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/20\/b-1-crashes-in-montana-crew-ejects\/","title":{"rendered":"B-1 Crashes in Montana, Crew Ejects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US Air Force B-1B Lancer (or &#8220;Bone&#8221;) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?id=120646\">crashed in Montana yesterday<\/a>.\u00a0 The four-man crew <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/article\/20130819\/NEWS\/308190031\">ejected<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A crew of two pilots and two weapon systems officers were on board. All four members of the aircrew safely ejected with some injuries&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right now all of our thoughts and prayers are with the crews and their families,&#8221; [Col Kevin Kennedy, the 28th Bomb Wing commander] said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The B-1 is sometimes described as the &#8220;fighter&#8221; of the bomber world.\u00a0 It is powered by four of the same engines used in the F-15\/F-16, is supersonic, is controlled by a stick rather than a yoke, and is (thankfully) equipped with four ejection seats.\u00a0 It flies essentially like other bombers, though.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, the Air Force will investigate and publish its findings at a later date.<\/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>A US Air Force B-1B Lancer (or &#8220;Bone&#8221;) crashed in Montana yesterday.\u00a0 The four-man crew ejected. A crew of two pilots and two weapon systems officers were on board. All four members of the aircrew safely ejected with some injuries&#8230; &#8220;Right now all of our thoughts and prayers are with the crews and their families,&#8221; [Col Kevin Kennedy, the 28th [&#8230;]<\/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":[134,716,5285,4238,4237,2],"class_list":["post-25192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-b-1","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-kevin-kennedy","tag-lancer","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25192","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=25192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}