{"id":4391,"date":"2010-03-25T00:35:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T05:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=4391"},"modified":"2011-03-23T23:45:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T04:45:02","slug":"wwii-pilot-winged-astronaut-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/25\/wwii-pilot-winged-astronaut-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"WWII Pilot, Winged Astronaut Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2010\/03\/ap_robert_white_obit_032410\/\">Air Force Maj Gen (Ret) Robert White<\/a> died in Florida this past week.\u00a0 He was a P-51 pilot in World War II before eventually becoming famous as an X-15 pilot.\u00a0 He also served during the Korean War and flew combat sorties in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>White achieved Mach 6 in the X-15 and also became the first &#8220;winged astronaut&#8221; when he flew the X-15 to a height of 314,750 feet, more than the 50 mile requirement for the Air Force to bestow astronaut status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air Force Maj Gen (Ret) Robert White died in Florida this past week.\u00a0 He was a P-51 pilot in World War II before eventually becoming famous as an X-15 pilot.\u00a0 He also served during the Korean War and flew combat sorties in Vietnam. White achieved Mach 6 in the X-15 and also became the first &#8220;winged astronaut&#8221; when he flew [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[249,89,2,325,322,90,123,323],"class_list":["post-4391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-astronaut","tag-korea","tag-military","tag-p-51","tag-robert-white","tag-vietnam","tag-world-war-ii","tag-x-15"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391","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=4391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}