{"id":6327,"date":"2010-07-09T00:20:47","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T06:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=6327"},"modified":"2010-07-08T21:53:38","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T03:53:38","slug":"civilian-ejects-from-fighter-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/09\/civilian-ejects-from-fighter-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Civilian Ejects from Fighter Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Navy has reported that a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/2010\/07\/ap_navy_fallon_crash_070810\/\">pilot successfully\u00a0ejected from an A-4 Skyhawk<\/a> at Fallon Naval Air Station.\u00a0 The A-4 was owned by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.atacusa.com\/\">Airborne Tactical Advantage Co<\/a> and flown by a civilian contract pilot.\u00a0 The company was apparently on contract to provide Red Air for Naval aviator training at Fallon.<\/p>\n<p>While civilian organizations flying military fighter aircraft are relatively rare (and they are often owned and\/or composed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-5411-Military-and-Civil-Aviation-Examiner~y2009m6d22-Airborne-Tactical-Advantage-Sometimes-its-good-to-be-bad\">almost entirely of former military members<\/a>), there are a surprising number of civilian &#8220;fighter pilots&#8221; flying fighter aircraft either in or in support of the US military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Navy has reported that a pilot successfully\u00a0ejected from an A-4 Skyhawk at Fallon Naval Air Station.\u00a0 The A-4 was owned by\u00a0Airborne Tactical Advantage Co and flown by a civilian contract pilot.\u00a0 The company was apparently on contract to provide Red Air for Naval aviator training at Fallon. While civilian organizations flying military fighter aircraft are relatively rare (and [&#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":[745,747,749,748,5285,2,36,746],"class_list":["post-6327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-a-4","tag-airborne-tactical-advantage-co","tag-civilian","tag-fallon","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-skyhawk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6327","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=6327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}