{"id":4378,"date":"2010-03-24T00:32:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T08:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=4378"},"modified":"2010-03-26T09:02:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T17:02:54","slug":"wasp-flew-first-flight-for-mission-aviation-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/24\/wasp-flew-first-flight-for-mission-aviation-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"WASP Flew First Flight for Mission Aviation Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several articles have recently highlighted the accomplishments of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, who flew a variety of non-combat roles during World War II with the goal of allowing men to deploy to war.\u00a0 In July 2009, President Obama signed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123157228\">bill awarding the group the Congressional Gold Medal<\/a> for their accomplishments.\u00a0 A few weeks ago more than 200 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123194315\">gathered for a presentation of the medal<\/a> to the group.<\/p>\n<p>What some may not realize is at least one WASP played an integral part in the early days of missionary aviation, including a direct role in the <!--more-->creation of Mission Aviation Fellowship.\u00a0 The MAF was founded by US military pilots and has provided air transportation for humanitarian and missions needs to remote locations for decades.\u00a0 Betty Greene, a former WASP, would eventually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnwlocalnews.com\/east_king\/bel\/community\/88970707.html\">fly its first mission<\/a> ferrying two Wycliffe workers to a remote location in Mexico in 1946 (as noted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maf.org\/history\">MAF&#8217;s history page<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The relationship among missions, aviation, and the military is a long and historical one.<\/p>\n<p>Also at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maf.org\/news\/maf-news\/first-maf-pilot-honored-for-wartime-service\">the MAF&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several articles have recently highlighted the accomplishments of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, who flew a variety of non-combat roles during World War II with the goal of allowing men to deploy to war.\u00a0 In July 2009, President Obama signed a bill awarding the group the Congressional Gold Medal for their accomplishments.\u00a0 A few weeks ago more than 200 gathered [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[319,70,43,10,318],"class_list":["post-4378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missionary-aviation","tag-betty-greene","tag-evangelism","tag-obama","tag-religion","tag-wasp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4378","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=4378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}