{"id":4778,"date":"2023-04-10T15:45:37","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T21:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/?p=4778"},"modified":"2023-04-10T15:51:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T21:51:35","slug":"that-time-i-flew-a-spy-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/?p=4778","title":{"rendered":"That time I flew a spy plane."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Google thought it&#8217;d mention that this photo was taken 14 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_0007-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_0007-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nachzen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_0007-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/nachzen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_0007-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nachzen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_0007-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nachzen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_0007-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/nachzen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_0007-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Usually when it brings up images like this (taken at Jackson Hole, WY), I start to wonder about my career choices.  I suddenly wondered what happened to Mesa&#8217;s Dash 8&#8217;s.  So I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airfleets.net\/ficheapp\/plane-dh8-455.htm\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.airfleets.net\/ficheapp\/plane-dh8-455.htm\">looked up<\/a> this one since its N-number (N455YV) was right there, and discovered that it eventually made its way to the U.S. Army, who turned it into a surveillance plane.  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defenceweb.co.za\/aerospace\/aerospace-aerospace\/secretive-us-spyplane-destroyed-in-kenyan-air-base-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\">And then it was destroyed in a terrorist attack in Kenya<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"454\" src=\"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Dash-8_Manda_Bay.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Dash-8_Manda_Bay.jpg 600w, https:\/\/nachzen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Dash-8_Manda_Bay-150x114.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-1024x266.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-1024x266.png 1024w, https:\/\/nachzen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-600x156.png 600w, https:\/\/nachzen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-150x39.png 150w, https:\/\/nachzen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-768x199.png 768w, https:\/\/nachzen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png 1041w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google thought it&#8217;d mention that this photo was taken 14 years ago. Usually when it brings up images like this (taken at Jackson Hole, WY), I start to wonder about my career choices. I suddenly wondered what happened to Mesa&#8217;s Dash 8&#8217;s. So I looked up this one since its N-number (N455YV) was right there,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonclassified-nonsense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4783,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778\/revisions\/4783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}