{"id":41105,"date":"2017-06-26T00:20:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T03:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=41105"},"modified":"2017-06-26T01:30:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T04:30:47","slug":"air-force-thunderbird-flips-after-incentive-flight-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/26\/air-force-thunderbird-flips-after-incentive-flight-landing\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Thunderbird Flips After Incentive Flight Landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two-seat F-16 on the USAF Thunderbird Aerial Demonstration Team is used for &#8220;incentive&#8221; flights and flying local celebrities, among other public relations tasks.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/1227449\/thunderbird-aircraft-mishap-at-air-show\/\">one memorable<\/a> way to end <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/af-thunderbirds-performance-jet-flips-during-landing-2-hospitalized-1.475077\">your flight<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_41107\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41107\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41107\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/tbirdrollover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/tbirdrollover.jpg 900w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/tbirdrollover-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/tbirdrollover-768x486.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-41107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">June 23, 2017, in Dayton, Ohio. TY GREENLEES \/ DAYTON DAILY NEWS \/AP<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Both the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AFThunderbirds\/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE&amp;fref=nf\">pilot and &#8220;passenger&#8221;<\/a> (Capt. Erik <!--more-->Gonsalves and\u00a0TSgt Kenneth Cordova, a &#8220;tactical aircraft maintainer&#8221;) were reported in good condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two-seat F-16 on the USAF Thunderbird Aerial Demonstration Team is used for &#8220;incentive&#8221; flights and flying local celebrities, among other public relations tasks. That&#8217;s one memorable way to end your flight: Both the pilot and &#8220;passenger&#8221; (Capt. Erik<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[134,6288,186,5285,6289,2,453],"class_list":["post-41105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-erik-gonsalves","tag-f-16","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-kenneth-cordova","tag-military","tag-thunderbirds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41105","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=41105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}