{"id":2147,"date":"2012-01-22T16:39:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T16:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=2147"},"modified":"2016-12-30T10:16:35","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T15:16:35","slug":"visit-by-a-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/fantasy-of-flight\/visit-by-a-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit by a Legacy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We were recently was visited by Dawn Holland, the granddaughter of Lowell Bayles, who was the famous Golden Age pilot that won the Thompson Trophy Race in 1931 in the Gee Bee Zee.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2419\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 571px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2419 size-full colorbox-2147\" title=\"Gee Bee Zee presentation\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gee-Bee-Zee-presentation2.jpg\" width=\"571\" height=\"577\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presentation of Dawn&#8217;s artwork<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dawn never got to meet her grandfather who, unfortunately, he was killed later that year trying to break the world speed record in the same airplane with a more powerful engine. \u00a0Dawn came out and presented me with a painting she did herself of the aircraft in honor of keeping the spirit of her grandfather alive.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 576px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2414 size-full colorbox-2147\" title=\"Gee Bee Z 2006_FantasyOfFlight 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gee-Bee-Z-2006_FantasyOfFlight-1.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our reproduction of the Gee Bee Zee<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I acquired a very faithful reproduction of the aircraft, which is on display at Fantasy of Flight.<\/p>\n<p>Kermit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were recently was visited by Dawn Holland, the granddaughter of Lowell Bayles, who was the famous Golden Age pilot that won the Thompson Trophy Race in 1931 in the Gee Bee Zee. Dawn never\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,56,15,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy-of-flight","category-gee-bee-z","category-kermit-weeks","category-notable_friends_and_visitors","visit-by-a-legacy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147","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=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5992,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions\/5992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}