{"id":47979,"date":"2022-07-11T23:26:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T21:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=47979"},"modified":"2023-07-08T06:16:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T04:16:42","slug":"just-like-old-times-p-51-mustang-fighters-escorting-a-b-17-bomber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/07\/11\/just-like-old-times-p-51-mustang-fighters-escorting-a-b-17-bomber\/","title":{"rendered":"Just like old times: P-51 Mustang fighters escorting a B-17 bomber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The North American P-51 Mustang and the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress were fellow sufferers on many missions during World War II.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/17\/a-great-report-showing-how-a-p-51d-mustang-was-inside-and-how-it-worked\/\">A great report showing how a P-51D Mustang was inside and how it worked<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/04\/30\/the-unforgettable-flight-in-an-old-1944-p-51-mustang-fighter-seen-from-its-cockpit\/\">The unforgettable flight in an old 1944 P-51 Mustang fighter seen from its cockpit<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Few of these veteran planes remain in airworthy condition today. Last year they could be seen together at the Wing of the North's AirExpo 2021, in Eden Prairie, Minnesota (USA). <strong>Two P-51s, the \"Lope's Hope 3rd\" and the \"Sierra Sue II\", escorted the B-17 \"Yankee Lady\".<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/AirshowStuffVideos\/videos\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AirshowStuffVideos<\/a> today posted footage from that historic flight. Turn up the volume on your speakers to hear the roars:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"P-51 Mustang Low Formation Passes and B-17 Escort - WOTN AirExpo 2021\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pd_zclgjKZM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North American P-51 Mustang and the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress were fellow sufferers on many missions during World War II.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16305,19635,11549],"tags":[7133,2010,10389],"class_list":["post-47979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annotations","category-annotations-defense","category-military-history","tag-boeing-b-17-flying-fortress","tag-north-american-p-51-mustang","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}