{"id":378,"date":"2005-03-21T11:08:58","date_gmt":"2005-03-21T01:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=378"},"modified":"2005-03-21T11:08:58","modified_gmt":"2005-03-21T01:08:58","slug":"airshow-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/21\/airshow-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Airshow 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was at the airshow yesterday &#8211; with all the benefits of knowing people in the business :)<\/p>\n<p>Mad people doing airobatics, mad guy hanging upside-down off the wing of a plane while it then barrell-rolled so he was standing up. Pretty cool to watch.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, then there was the fighter jets. fast, loud, and i swear the F16 can do a u-turn in less space than half the cars on the road.<\/p>\n<p>Then, of course, there&#8217;s the air force supply planes that do crazy landings, take offs and can fly a few feet above the ground while dropping supplies\/releif out the back.<\/p>\n<p>When the US air force guy was saying what missions some of their fighters had flown in, notably absent was Gulf War II. Hrrmm&#8230; maybe a touchy subject? Who knows.<\/p>\n<p>An F111 doing a dump and burn is always pretty to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was at the airshow yesterday &#8211; with all the benefits of knowing people in the business :) Mad people doing airobatics, mad guy hanging upside-down off the wing of a plane while it then barrell-rolled so he was standing up. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/21\/airshow-2005\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-66","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2313,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/03\/undocumented-alter-table-that-does-nothing\/","url_meta":{"origin":378,"position":0},"title":"Undocumented ALTER TABLE that does *nothing* (useful)","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2011-03-03","format":false,"excerpt":"(at least since MySQL 5.1.42) alter table t1 force; Pretty neat huh? 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