{"id":6038,"date":"2013-02-13T19:25:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T00:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fitzvideo.com\/sky_surfing\/?p=6038"},"modified":"2013-02-14T05:50:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T10:50:38","slug":"an-illustrious-hero-by-dave-omalley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/2013\/02\/13\/an-illustrious-hero-by-dave-omalley\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;An Illustrious Hero&#8221; by Dave O&#8217;Malley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Furious, Glorious, Indomitable, Courageous, Indefatigable, Formidable, Audacious, Illustrious, Implacable, Victorious<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 these are not just the names of <strong>Royal Navy Aircraft Carriers<\/strong> of the <strong>Second World War<\/strong>, these are also <strong>the qualities<\/strong> of the <strong>pilots and aircrew<\/strong> who flew <strong>fighters<\/strong> and <strong>attack aircraft<\/strong> from their dangerous decks. <strong>Vintage Wings&#8217; friend Hugh Pawson<\/strong>, who died two weeks ago, was one of those great young boys \u2013 <strong>an Illustrious Hero<\/strong>. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintagewings.ca\/Home\/tabid\/40\/language\/en-CA\/Default.aspx\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a> to learn more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dave O&#8217;Malley &#8211; Vintage Wings of Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PawsonFlash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6039\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PawsonFlash.jpg\" width=\"558\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PawsonFlash.jpg 558w, https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PawsonFlash-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PawsonFlash-496x640.jpg 496w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PawsonEnd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6042\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PawsonEnd-532x640.jpg\" width=\"532\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PawsonEnd-532x640.jpg 532w, https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PawsonEnd-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PawsonEnd.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators, Furious, Glorious, Indomitable, Courageous, Indefatigable, Formidable, Audacious, Illustrious, Implacable, Victorious \u2013 these are not just the names of Royal Navy Aircraft Carriers of the Second World War, these are also the qualities of the pilots and aircrew who flew fighters and attack aircraft from their dangerous decks. Vintage Wings&#8217; friend Hugh <a href='https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/2013\/02\/13\/an-illustrious-hero-by-dave-omalley\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviators-of-note","category-military","category-uncategorized","category-31-id","category-18-id","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6038"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6041,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6038\/revisions\/6041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}