{"id":317,"date":"2008-02-24T10:34:51","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T17:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=317"},"modified":"2008-11-30T12:15:54","modified_gmt":"2008-11-30T19:15:54","slug":"first-b-2-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"First B-2 Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/7260231.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Oh, my<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1077\" title=\"b-2\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/b-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p>One night in the squadron bar, another lieutenant colonel and I had a long, beer-fueled discussion about fellow F-15 pilots who&#8217;d died in crashes.\u00a0 The guys who didn&#8217;t eject in time.\u00a0 The guys who flew into the ground or water, or who were instantly killed in mid-air collisions.\u00a0 And we concluded that there could be worse things than dying in a jet.<\/p>\n<p>Being the first captain to lose a 1.2 billion-dollar B-2, for instance.<\/p>\n<p>That would be worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, my. One night in the squadron bar, another lieutenant colonel and I had a long, beer-fueled discussion about fellow F-15 pilots who&#8217;d died in crashes.\u00a0 The guys who didn&#8217;t eject in time.\u00a0 The guys who flew into the ground or water, or who were instantly killed in mid-air collisions.\u00a0 And we concluded that there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flying","category-military"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","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=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}