{"id":45,"date":"2014-05-26T12:59:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T02:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.wordpress.com\/?p=45"},"modified":"2014-05-26T12:59:28","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T02:59:28","slug":"old-aeroplanes-arent-they-wonderful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Old aeroplanes &#8211; aren&#8217;t they wonderful?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/4599.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"i-44\" class=\" wp-image alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/4599.jpg?w=650\" alt=\"Image\" width=\"436\" height=\"311\" \/><\/a>I have always loved old aeroplanes. I can remember as a small boy going along to air shows and being thrilled by the rumble of big radial engines and the spine-tingling noise of a 12-cylinder Merlin engine on a Spitfire. And the smooth sound of the ubiquitous Lycoming or Continental flat four. There&#8217;s just something about the smell, sound and look of an antique aircraft that pushes all my buttons &#8211; well, many of them, anyway!<\/p>\n<p>A while back, I joined the Antique Aeroplane Association of Australia &#8211; AAAA &#8211; which is (strangely as its name suggests) an association for the owners and operators of older aircraft. They have a great website at:\u00a0<a title=\"Antique Aeroplane Association of Australia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.antique-aeroplane.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.antique-aeroplane.com.au<\/a> where you can find out all about old planes and how to join AAAA.<\/p>\n<p>They categorise their aircraft in four ways &#8211; Antiques are those aircraft in production in or before 1945; Classics are from 1945-1955; Contemporary are 1956-1970; and Warbirds are what they say &#8211; aircraft of any age, ooperated by the military of any country. The AAAA has gatherings all over Australia and they have a current events list on their website. Of particular enjoyment each year are the various State &amp; Territory &#8216;Toy Runs&#8217; for collecting presents for disadvantaged children &#8211; check the AAAA website for details later in the year.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I&#8217;ll soon be flying my own antique aeroplane, which is older than me but in much better condition! Watch this space&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always loved old aeroplanes. I can remember as a small boy going along to air shows and being thrilled by the rumble of big radial engines and the spine-tingling noise of a 12-cylinder Merlin engine on a Spitfire. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=45\">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":[5],"tags":[134,529,707,1053],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"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=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}