{"id":23629,"date":"2019-03-19T09:29:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T16:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=23629"},"modified":"2023-01-31T17:30:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T00:30:40","slug":"air-minded-eagle-versus-flanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=23629","title":{"rendered":"Air-Minded: Eagle Versus Flanker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hushkit.net\/\">Hush Kit<\/a>, \u201cthe alternative aviation magazine,\u201d has published another piece of mine, this one about how F-15 Eagle pilots&nbsp;trained to face the threat posed by the Soviet Union&#8217;s then-new Su-27 Flanker in the late 1980s and early 90s, when I flew F-15s at Kadena Air Base in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Hush Kit, a UK-based aviation blog, is run by Joe Coles, with whom I&#8217;ve collaborated before (&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/hushkit.net\/2017\/09\/13\/cold-war-eagle-driver-f-15-pilot-reveals-all\/\">Cold War Eagle Driver: F-15 Pilot Reveals All<\/a>,&#8221; published in September, 2017). As with the earlier piece, Joe formatted my text in a newsy format with eye-catching graphics (something I wish I was better at). I&#8217;m happy with what&nbsp;Joe and I have done together, and I think you\u2019ll enjoy reading my latest Hush Kit installment. <a href=\"https:\/\/hushkit.net\/2019\/03\/17\/f-15-versus-flanker-an-eagle-pilots-view\/\">Click here<\/a> to read the interview on the Hush Kit site, or click on the graphic below:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Screen Shot 2019-03-19 at 7.44.04 AM\" href=\"https:\/\/hushkit.net\/2019\/03\/17\/f-15-versus-flanker-an-eagle-pilots-view\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7866\/46505101265_aa0172c5c7_o.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2019-03-19 at 7.44.04 AM\" width=\"561\" height=\"549\"><\/a><\/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>Hush Kit, \u201cthe alternative aviation magazine,\u201d has published another piece of mine, this one about how F-15 Eagle pilots trained to face the threat posed by the Soviet Union&#8217;s then-new Su-27 Flanker in the late 1980s and early 90s, when I flew F-15s at Kadena Air Base in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1960,3,14],"tags":[2704,2701,2703,2705,2702,758],"class_list":["post-23629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-minded","category-flying","category-military","tag-airminded","tag-f15","tag-flanker","tag-hushkit","tag-su27","tag-eagle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23629","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=23629"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32652,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23629\/revisions\/32652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}