{"id":680,"date":"2019-05-29T19:53:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T23:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/?p=680"},"modified":"2019-05-29T20:01:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T23:31:48","slug":"hmx-1-mv-22b-yyt-or-some-usmc-presidential-aircraft-at-st-johns-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/?p=680","title":{"rendered":"#HMX-1 #MV-22B @ #YYT (or some USMC Presidential Aircraft at St. John’s Airport)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Now for something a little different… Earlier today I heard a “strange” aircraft. I was not quite sure what it was but quickly forgot about it. I happened to be out by the airport when I noticed a couple of USMC C-130J<\/a>s on the apron. USAF (or Air National Guard) C-130s aren’t all that rare – they often stop off here before staring or ending the hop over the “pond.” USMC, well, that is different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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C-130Js at YYT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When I went down there were three MV-22B <\/a>Ospreys on the apron. But not just any Ospreys – they were from HMX-1<\/a>, the USMC squadron responsible for transporting the United States President (no matter who<\/em> they are :-)).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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HMX-1 MV-22B – Check the oil, please!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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MV-22B’s don’t know how lucky they are to bask in the sun at YYT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now for something a little different… Earlier today I heard a “strange” aircraft. I was not quite sure what it was but quickly forgot about it. I happened to be out by the airport when I noticed a couple of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}