{"id":70746,"date":"2022-04-05T02:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T06:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=70746"},"modified":"2022-04-04T10:04:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T14:04:45","slug":"tower-bridge-fighter-jet-incident-tales-from-the-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/04\/05\/tower-bridge-fighter-jet-incident-tales-from-the-bottle\/","title":{"rendered":"Tower Bridge Fighter Jet Incident | Tales From the Bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x1DbN_S2h2o\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Qxir<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 26 Nov 2021<\/p>\n<p>This jet pilot decided to stage a protest in the skies of London, but his actions became more well known for an incident that occurred on his journey home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Hawker Hunter Tower Bridge incident occurred on 5 April 1968 when Royal Air Force (RAF) Hawker Hunter pilot Alan Pollock performed unauthorised low flying over several London landmarks and then flew through the span of Tower Bridge on the Thames. His actions were to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the RAF and as a demonstration against the Ministry of Defence for not recognising it.<\/p>\n<p>Upon landing he was arrested and later invalided out of the RAF on medical grounds, which avoided a court martial.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More on Wikipedia:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbllRcG0tbEY1UWpkS2NieGQ0MmFISm1mTl9qUXxBQ3Jtc0trY0lUY3hQbTQ5ZUhVZnpJUElCaFQ0S0pLb1ZuWGxvYU45MXlabXU2Y08xWjljMUQxb19vWlZXSDY4OVdBVkRCb1RHQzBNeWUyaXlSNG1yWjh0VkYtVU9xb0xnREJsS2d6MVJqSld2LWNwbXhvT0Z4Zw&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FHawker_Hunter_Tower_Bridge_incident\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hawker_&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Merch: teespring.com\/stores\/qxir<br \/>\nPatreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/qxir\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/qxir<\/a><br \/>\nTwitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QxirYT\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/QxirYT<\/a><br \/>\nDiscord: https:\/\/discord.gg\/jZzvvwJ<br \/>\nTwitch: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/qxiryt\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/qxiryt\/<\/a><br \/>\nSubreddit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Qxir\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Qxir\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Qxir<\/strong><br \/>\n3 weeks ago (edited)<br \/>\nYes, I know it&#8217;s pronounced &#8220;Tems&#8221; lol<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2022-04-05-at-10-03-19-Tower-Bridge-Fighter-Jet-Incident-Tales-From-the-Bottle-Quotulatiousness.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2022-04-05-at-10-03-19-Tower-Bridge-Fighter-Jet-Incident-Tales-From-the-Bottle-Quotulatiousness-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-72819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2022-04-05-at-10-03-19-Tower-Bridge-Fighter-Jet-Incident-Tales-From-the-Bottle-Quotulatiousness-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2022-04-05-at-10-03-19-Tower-Bridge-Fighter-Jet-Incident-Tales-From-the-Bottle-Quotulatiousness-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2022-04-05-at-10-03-19-Tower-Bridge-Fighter-Jet-Incident-Tales-From-the-Bottle-Quotulatiousness-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2022-04-05-at-10-03-19-Tower-Bridge-Fighter-Jet-Incident-Tales-From-the-Bottle-Quotulatiousness.png 854w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qxir Published 26 Nov 2021 This jet pilot decided to stage a protest in the skies of London, but his actions became more well known for an incident that occurred on his journey home. &#8220;The Hawker Hunter Tower Bridge incident occurred on 5 April 1968 when Royal Air Force (RAF) Hawker Hunter pilot Alan Pollock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[4,7,5],"tags":[145,108,350,413],"class_list":["post-70746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-military","tag-airforce","tag-coldwar","tag-london","tag-scandal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-ip4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70746","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=70746"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72820,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70746\/revisions\/72820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}