{"id":4943,"date":"2002-04-05T10:45:28","date_gmt":"2002-04-05T16:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texas-flyer.com\/newblog\/?p=4943"},"modified":"2023-11-23T10:47:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T16:47:38","slug":"a-big-day-for-jim_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texas-flyer.com\/newblog\/?p=4943","title":{"rendered":"A Big Day for Jim!_"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 5, 2002<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the day that Jim will solo, for the first time, in his new Challenger!\u00a0 We start out by taking him up in the RANS and let him fly it a bit.<\/p>\n

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After I land and he’s taking care of some final details with the new plane, I take off again and take a few interesting pictures near the beach.<\/p>\n

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… and, as the sun sets, it’s time to set her down…<\/p>\n

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… BUT!<\/p>\n

Jim is there, sitting in his “new” Challenger, looking like he’s ready to take off on his first solo flight (the only kind there can be in a single-seater!)\u00a0 Here he is, warming up the Challenger<\/p>\n

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… and I decide to take off after he does and take pictures of him in the air…<\/p>\n

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Taxiing <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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\"Beautiful <\/a>
Beautiful take-off! <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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\"Ah, <\/a>
Ah, it flies so nice! <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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\"Over <\/a>
Over the fields near the airport <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

… I then decide to land to capture his triumphant return…<\/p>\n

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Happy happy! <\/div> <\/div>
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… a big day for Jim!<\/p>\n

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April 5, 2002 This is the day that Jim will solo, for the first time, in his new Challenger!\u00a0 We start out by taking him up in the RANS and let him fly it a bit. After I land and he’s taking care of some final details with the new plane, I take off again … Continue reading A Big Day for Jim!_<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1614,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rans-s12-xl"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texas-flyer.com\/newblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/04\/featured.jpg?fit=791%2C333&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texas-flyer.com\/newblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texas-flyer.com\/newblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texas-flyer.com\/newblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texas-flyer.com\/newblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texas-flyer.com\/newblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.texas-flyer.com\/newblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4944,"href":"https:\/\/www.texas-flyer.com\/newblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions\/4944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texas-flyer.com\/newblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texas-flyer.com\/newblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texas-flyer.com\/newblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texas-flyer.com\/newblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}