{"id":145249,"date":"2023-08-02T10:04:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T14:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=145249"},"modified":"2023-08-02T10:04:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T14:04:22","slug":"another-warbird-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=145249","title":{"rendered":"Another warbird crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_145250\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-145250\" style=\"width: 441px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-145250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/AT-6-Texan-N49961-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"441\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/AT-6-Texan-N49961-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/AT-6-Texan-N49961-490x333.jpg 490w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/AT-6-Texan-N49961-768x522.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/AT-6-Texan-N49961.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-145250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AT-6 Texan N49961<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This past weekend at the Oshkosh Airventure in Wisconsin there were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/07\/30\/us\/oshkosh-crash-air-show-accident\/index.html\">two crashes involving three aircraft<\/a>, which claimed the lives of four aviators. A helicopter and gyrocopter collided in midair over the portion of the airfield designated for the air show on Saturday afternoon. Both pilots perished. This was just hours after the above pictured aircraft, an unrestored AT-6 Texan crashed into Lake Winnebago just minutes after takeoff. Witness reports and ADS-B flight tracking data indicate the Texan entered a stall which induced a spin from which the pilot didn&#8217;t have time to recover. The pilot and her passenger both died instantly.<\/p>\n<p>I got to see this particular aircraft fly just two weeks ago. It was part of a group of Texans doing formation flights around the Flying Cloud Air Expo just outside Minneapolis. The plane was built by Boeing during WWII, exported to Canada, and found its way to Spain, before being sold into private hands. It still wore the Spanish roundel and markings.<\/p>\n<p>There have been several high profile warbird crashes in the last couple years, notably the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=133559\">B-17 and P-63 collide in mid-air over Dallas<\/a> last year and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=108139\">B-17 crash<\/a> in 2019. These are 80 year old aircraft. This year, the small handful of airworthy B-17 Flying Fortresses were grounded. It remains to be seen if they will be permitted by the FAA to fly again. I sincerely hope they do, as it&#8217;s an amazing link to the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend at the Oshkosh Airventure in Wisconsin there were two crashes involving three aircraft, &hellip; <a title=\"Another warbird crash\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=145249\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another warbird crash<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}