{"id":1169,"date":"2009-09-15T22:38:23","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T02:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2009-09-15T22:38:23","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T02:38:23","slug":"wings-of-freedom-at-grotonnew-london-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wings-of-freedom-at-grotonnew-london-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Wings of Freedom at Groton\/New London Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 10px;\" title=\"Wings of Freedom\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nanosphoto.com\/gallery\/albums\/wpw-20090916\/thumb_03-20090915-620307816-_MG_5664.jpg?resize=150%2C100\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/>OK, now for Part II of my Tuesday adventures &#8211; Wings of Freedom.\u00a0 I had heard about the Wings of Freedom tour stopping at the Groton\/New London airport on the news this morning, so I figured it would be worth a stop at lunchtime.\u00a0 Well, I did stop, but not exactly for as long as I would have liked.\u00a0 I had to take care of a (nearly) flat tire first &#8211; had a broken valve stem on one tire on the car.\u00a0 But I did manage to squeeze a little tour in before I went back to the office.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collingsfoundation.org\/cf_schedule-wof.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wings of Freedom<\/a> is a tour put on by the Collings Foundation where they restore &amp; fly World War II vintage aircraft to various airports around the country.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a great way to view some vintage war birds up close &amp; personal.\u00a0 So I went down the street from work to the airport, paid my $12 at the gate, and walked around the aircraft for a bit. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aerobell.com\/\">Check out Aerobell Airlines<\/a> for domestic flights. On this tour were three gorgeous aircraft &#8211; a B-17G (the <em>Nine-O-Nine<\/em>), B-24 (the <em>Witchcraft<\/em>) and a P-51 (the <em>Betty Jane<\/em>), all sitting in some beautiful lunchtime sunshine.\u00a0 While walking around, I also got a little bonus &#8211; a CT Army National Guard Blackhawk and another prop aircraft were heading out.\u00a0 OK, enough of that &#8211; here&#8217;s the photos.<\/p>\n[cpg_album:608]\n<p>Thanks for looking!<br \/>\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, now for Part II of my Tuesday adventures &#8211; Wings of Freedom.\u00a0 I had heard about the Wings of Freedom tour stopping at the Groton\/New London airport on the news this morning, so I figured it would be worth a stop at lunchtime.\u00a0 Well, I did stop, but not exactly for as long as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[327,328,329,330,14,331,68,332,333,334,335,336],"class_list":{"0":"post-1169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-aviation-photography","7":"tag-b17g","8":"tag-b24","9":"tag-blackhawk","10":"tag-collings-foundation","11":"tag-connecticut","12":"tag-ctarng","13":"tag-groton","14":"tag-grotonnew-london-airport","15":"tag-p51","16":"tag-wings-of-freedom","17":"tag-world-war-ii","18":"tag-wwii","19":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}