{"id":10221,"date":"2012-07-01T10:08:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T17:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=10221"},"modified":"2023-02-01T07:10:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T14:10:50","slug":"air-minded-jets-hood-ornaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=10221","title":{"rendered":"Air-Minded: Jets &#038; Hood Ornaments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just for fun, a Sunday morning pop quiz: which came first?<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8145\/7480275402_5f13e03d66.jpg\" alt=\"F7U Cutlass\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">the jet ...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8148\/7480275446_18c20d812e.jpg\" alt=\"Chevrolet hood ornament\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">or the hood ornament?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Answer: the jet, in this case the Vought F7U Cutlass, which entered operational service with the US Navy in July 1951 (the prototype first flew in September 1948).  The Cutlass-like Chevrolet hood ornament first appeared on 1955 model year Chevrolets.<\/p>\n<p>Based on everything I&#8217;ve read about the &#8220;gutless Cutlass,&#8221; though, I think the hood ornament probably would have flown better.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?page_id=14450\"><strong> back to the Air-Minded Index<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just for fun, a Sunday morning pop quiz: which came first? Answer: the jet, in this case the Vought F7U Cutlass, which entered operational service with the US Navy in July 1951 (the prototype first flew in September 1948). The Cutlass-like Chevrolet hood ornament first appeared on 1955 model year Chevrolets. Based on everything I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1960,3],"tags":[856,852,855,851,854,853,850],"class_list":["post-10221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-minded","category-flying","tag-1950s","tag-chevrolet","tag-design","tag-f7u-cutlass","tag-hood-ornaments","tag-jets","tag-vought"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10221"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32779,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10221\/revisions\/32779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}