{"id":2928,"date":"2015-12-27T12:40:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T01:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=2928"},"modified":"2015-12-27T12:40:39","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T01:40:39","slug":"great-eastern-fly-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=2928","title":{"rendered":"Great Eastern Fly-In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greateasternflyin.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2937\" src=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/12\/great-eastern-2016-blog.jpg?w=627\" alt=\"Great Eastern 2016 blog\" width=\"192\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/great-eastern-2016-blog.jpg 1323w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/great-eastern-2016-blog-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/great-eastern-2016-blog-1024x858.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/great-eastern-2016-blog-768x643.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a>The annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greateasternflyin.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Great Eastern Fly-In<\/a> is taking place over the weekend of 9-10 January. The fly-in, as always, is at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Evans_Head_Memorial_Aerodrome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Evans Head Aerodrome<\/a>\u00a0on the coast of\u00a0northern New South Wales &#8211; an old military airfield once under threat of closure, so whether by air or land, please go along if you can.<\/p>\n<p>Flying displays are planned for both days, including most things that fly &#8211; from radio controlled models up to massive warbirds like the P51 Mustang and T28 Trojan.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s many a year since I was able to attend the fly-in from my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcsfc.org.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">club base at Jacobs Well<\/a> in south East Queensland. Now, alas, I&#8217;m based far away in Melbourne and family and business commitments (including the eagerly anticipated arrival of the first two customer A32 Vixxens) preclude my attendance this year.<\/p>\n<p>However, this promises to\u00a0be a great family event. Apart from all the aeroplanes &#8211; up close and personal &#8211; attractions include on-site catering, local food markets\u00a0and easy\u00a0access via a regular shuttle bus service to local cafes and restaurants. There&#8217;s a family movie night on Saturday, joy flights throughout the weekend, lots of stalls selling local produce and a great selection of vintage and veteran classic cars and military vehicles of all sorts.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the Great Eastern Fly-In is a wonderful community event for all aviators and the general public, with plenty of opportunites to view aircraft and talk to pilots.<\/p>\n<p>If you go &#8211; have a great (eastern!) time and send us your pictures and comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Great Eastern Fly-In is taking place over the weekend of 9-10 January. The fly-in, as always, is at Evans Head Aerodrome\u00a0on the coast of\u00a0northern New South Wales &#8211; an old military airfield once under threat of closure, so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=2928\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,4,5,6],"tags":[502,537,725,958],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}