{"id":3034,"date":"2012-10-06T17:06:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T17:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=3034"},"modified":"2012-11-21T11:20:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T11:20:55","slug":"mitchell-bomber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=3034","title":{"rendered":"MITCHELL BOMBER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mitchell Bomber was the star of the Doolittle Raid over Tokyo. Although the Raid was but a military pin prick, it&#8217;s symbolic value in the aftermath of Pearl Harbour cannot be overestimated. Before the Raid, America was losing the war in the Pacific. After the Raid, it started winning!!<\/p>\n<p>Check out my video of her parking manoeuvre here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KNmIKgWESyc&amp;feature=youtu.be\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KNmIKgWESyc&amp;feature=youtu.be<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mitchell-Bomber-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3035\" title=\"Mitchell Bomber-2\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mitchell-Bomber-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mitchell-Bomber-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mitchell-Bomber-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>B25 MITCHELL BOMBER<\/p>\n<p>Walking around the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum&#8217;s B25 Mitchell Bomber at the recent Gatineau airshow, I noticed something oddly different about her overall appearance. And then it hit me!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Hot-Gen_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3038\" title=\"Hot Gen_\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Hot-Gen_-300x256.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Hot-Gen_-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Hot-Gen_-1024x875.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Hot-Gen_.jpg 1871w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HOT GEN\u00a0 (MARK I)<\/p>\n<p>Digging into my archives I pulled out the nose cone art of yesteryear.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Hot-Gen-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3037\" title=\"Hot Gen 2\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Hot-Gen-21-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Hot-Gen-21-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Hot-Gen-21-1024x719.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HOT GEN (MARK II)<\/p>\n<p>And here she is now in her new livery!! HOT GEN has had an Ellen DeGeneres makeover!!<\/p>\n<p>You guys at the CWHM are truly inspirational!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mitchell-Bomber.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3301\" title=\"Mitchell Bomber\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mitchell-Bomber-300x266.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mitchell-Bomber-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mitchell-Bomber.jpg 796w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MITCHELL BOMBER WIND TUNNEL TESTS<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mitchell-Bomber-rollout.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3303\" title=\"Mitchell Bomber rollout\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mitchell-Bomber-rollout-300x249.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mitchell-Bomber-rollout-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mitchell-Bomber-rollout.jpg 789w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ROLLOUT OF PRODUCTION MODEL<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mitchell Bomber was the star of the Doolittle Raid over Tokyo. Although the Raid was but a military pin prick, it&#8217;s symbolic value in the aftermath of Pearl Harbour cannot be overestimated. Before the Raid, America was losing the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=3034\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3034"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3040,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3034\/revisions\/3040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}