{"id":26838,"date":"2020-08-03T09:58:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T16:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=26838"},"modified":"2023-01-30T17:17:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T00:17:20","slug":"air-minded-for-eagle-drivers-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=26838","title":{"rendered":"Air-Minded: For Eagle Drivers Only"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During my days flying the F-15 Eagle at various stateside and overseas locations, I occasionally wrote articles for USAF publications. One of my sisters found a stack of material I sent my father years ago, stuff I&#8217;d almost forgotten about. Two of my articles were in the pile. I thought I&#8217;d share them with you, starting with this one, inspired by a close encounter with two RAF Phantom IIs over the North Sea off the coast of the Netherlands. And when I say &#8220;over the North Sea,&#8221; I mean &#8220;barely!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I lost the original word processing documents decades ago. Not wanting to retype the articles, I decided to scan them instead. The results are not great, but they&#8217;re readable, particularly if you click on the individual pages and view them on Flickr.<\/p>\n<p>The publication this article appeared in was the USAFE (United States Air Forces Europe) Airscoop. It was later featured in a stateside magazine called TAC (Tactical Air Command) Attack.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/50184689503\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"airscoop_1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50184689503_c60a1f9bca_b.jpg\" width=\"744\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"airscoop_1\"><\/a><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/50184688178\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"airscoop_2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50184688178_e8dc27b715_b.jpg\" width=\"744\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"airscoop_2\"><\/a><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/50184686663\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"airscoop_3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50184686663_bdc7eff1a4_b.jpg\" width=\"744\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"airscoop_3\"><\/a><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/50184685868\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"airscoop_4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50184685868_4dce159fe8_b.jpg\" width=\"744\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"airscoop_4\"><\/a><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/50185484432\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"airscoop_5\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50185484432_f17a932491_b.jpg\" width=\"744\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"airscoop_5\"><\/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>During my days flying the F-15 Eagle at various stateside and overseas locations, I occasionally wrote articles for various USAF publications.<\/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":[3083,3238,1999],"class_list":["post-26838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-minded","category-flying","category-military","tag-f-15_eagle","tag-flyingsafety","tag-usafe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26838","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=26838"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32610,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26838\/revisions\/32610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}