{"id":6542,"date":"2010-11-24T18:49:50","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T22:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6542"},"modified":"2010-11-24T18:52:52","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T22:52:52","slug":"end-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/11\/24\/end-of-an-era\/","title":{"rendered":"End of an era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last Harrier takes off from <em>HMS Ark Royal<\/em> earlier today:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Last-Harrier-from-HMS-Ark-Royal.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Last Harrier from HMS Ark Royal\" width=\"650\" height=\"435\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Last-Harrier-from-HMS-Ark-Royal.jpg 650w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Last-Harrier-from-HMS-Ark-Royal-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Last-Harrier-from-HMS-Ark-Royal-480x321.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Harriers-fly-past-HMS-Ark-Royal.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Harriers fly past HMS Ark Royal\" width=\"650\" height=\"435\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Harriers-fly-past-HMS-Ark-Royal.jpg 650w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Harriers-fly-past-HMS-Ark-Royal-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Harriers-fly-past-HMS-Ark-Royal-480x321.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Lt. Cdr. James Blackmore was the last Harrier pilot to launch from <em>HMS Ark Royal<\/em>, noting that &#8220;this is truly a memorable day.&#8221; But as it is never a good idea to tell your bosses they are a bunch of idiots, he also adds that &#8220;we accept the decision to decommission both the Harrier and <em>HMS Ark Royal<\/em>; however, of course the final launch will be emotional.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>More information at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&#038;plckScript=blogScript&#038;plckElementId=blogDest&#038;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&#038;plckPostId=Blog%3a27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3afc499d88-6dad-4fc4-a72f-8712723bb18a\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Aviation Week<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last Harrier takes off from HMS Ark Royal earlier today: Lt. Cdr. James Blackmore was the last Harrier pilot to launch from HMS Ark Royal, noting that &#8220;this is truly a memorable day.&#8221; But as it is never a good idea to tell your bosses they are a bunch of idiots, he also adds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[123,617,117,30],"class_list":["post-6542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-military","tag-aircraft","tag-carriers","tag-fleetairarm","tag-navy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1Hw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6542"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6546,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6542\/revisions\/6546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}