{"id":99050,"date":"2020-05-01T13:00:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=99050"},"modified":"2020-05-01T10:47:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T14:47:04","slug":"pilot-leaves-a-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=99050","title":{"rendered":"Pilot Leaves a Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-81136\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Smokey-on-Mothers-Day-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"323\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Smokey-on-Mothers-Day-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Smokey-on-Mothers-Day-444x333.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Smokey-on-Mothers-Day-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Smokey-on-Mothers-Day.jpg 639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, someone put in writing what most of us likely feel right about now. And he did it where everyone could see it, testing out his dad&#8217;s Cherokee at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>From the article:\u00a0He might not be a military pilot, but 19-year-old Towson University student Greggor Hines threw his hat into the elite aviation community ring this week when he flew an aircraft over Maryland in a flight pattern that spelled out \u201cF&#8211;k COVID 19.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"o-articleBody__text a-body1 element element-paragraph\">At the controls of his father\u2019s single-piston Piper Cherokee, Hines gracefully weaved through the air for two hours in a path that measured about 28 nautical miles from end to end and almost 200 nautical miles in all,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonian.com\/2020\/04\/29\/this-american-hero-flew-an-airplane-over-maryland-in-a-flight-path-that-spelled-f-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Washingtonian reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"o-articleBody__text a-body1 element element-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019d just got a new compass in the airplane, and I just had to check it out somehow,\u201d Hines told the Washingtonian, adding that he used the aviation app ForeFlight to map out a course that would properly \u201cexpress how I felt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"o-articleBody__text a-body1 element element-paragraph\">The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/flightaware.com\/live\/flight\/N98131?fbclid=IwAR3L14eQSaSnonmsAnzFbiy20suY6NdPT1HQze9WPFwZTXmF_czcJka65g0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">aircraft tracking site FlightAware<\/a> picked up the Piper Cherokee\u2019s path over Aberdeen, Maryland, rendering an aerial insult that would make even Pete Mitchell proud. &#8211; article<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/off-duty\/military-culture\/2020\/04\/30\/19-year-old-pilot-spells-f-k-covid-19-in-flight-path-joins-trailblazers-of-military-aviation\/?utm_source=clavis\">https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/off-duty\/military-culture\/2020\/04\/30\/19-year-old-pilot-spells-f-k-covid-19-in-flight-path-joins-trailblazers-of-military-aviation\/?utm_source=clavis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The map of his aerial trail says it all.\u00a0 It was visible in many areas. Fortunately, the sky was not cloudy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Finally, someone put in writing what most of us likely feel right about now. 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