{"id":2117,"date":"2010-03-09T21:31:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T21:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2018-11-08T14:39:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T19:39:05","slug":"tuskegee-airmen-symposium-at-fantasy-of-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/fantasy-of-flight\/tuskegee-airmen-symposium-at-fantasy-of-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuskegee Airmen Symposium at Fantasy of Flight!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recently hosted a symposium with several Tuskegee Airmen at Fantasy of Flight in celebration of Black History month. \u00a0It was a great success and over the three-day event 500 school kids, as well as many adults, came out to hear their stories, ask questions, and get autographs.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1134\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 410px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Kermit-Roscoe-Brown-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1134 colorbox-2117\" title=\"Kermit &amp; Roscoe Brown-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Kermit-Roscoe-Brown-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">With Roscoe Brown - 1st pilot ever to shoot down a German Me-262 Jet!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1136\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 542px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P-51C-blog-shot12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1136   colorbox-2117\" title=\"P-51C blog shot1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P-51C-blog-shot12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"542\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flying &quot;Ina the Macon Belle&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I flew the P-51C Mustang\u00a0&#8220;Ina the Macon Belle&#8221;\u00a0all three days, which is painted in the colors of Lee Archer, the highest scoring Tuskegee pilot. \u00a0Lee was looking forward to coming down for the event but fell ill three weeks prior and passed away. \u00a0His story was covered on many of the National news stations and he was buried with full-military honors at Arlington National Cemetery. \u00a0Lee was a great friend and, while he will be surely missed, his story and the story of the Tuskegee Airmen will continue to live on at Fantasy of Flight!<\/p>\n<p>Kermit<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently hosted a symposium with several Tuskegee Airmen at Fantasy of Flight in celebration of Black History month. \u00a0It was a great success and over the three-day event 500 school kids, as well as\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,11,15,27,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calendar-events","category-fantasy-of-flight","category-kermit-weeks","category-notable_friends_and_visitors","category-p-51c-mustang","tuskegee-airmen-symposium-at-fantasy-of-flight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6362,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions\/6362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}