{"id":7114,"date":"2014-10-11T21:47:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-12T04:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/?p=7114"},"modified":"2014-10-11T21:47:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T04:47:51","slug":"number-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/?p=7114","title":{"rendered":"Number 2!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this week I managed to get Air Force 2 when it was visiting Seattle.  I have spotted Air Force Once twice before (once in MSP and the other in SEA earlier this year, or was it last? I don&#8217;t remember) and getting the USAF&#8217;s 757 had been elusive.  I have shots of their 737s (unpainted) but never the C-32 (which is the Military designation for the 757).  I was a bit worried that since it was a South Flow out of Boeing Field that the photos from the Museum of flight (where I had a meeting before the flight took off) would not be any good.  Thankfully due to the pilots holding it on the runway until the very last minute, I got some fantastic examples of a typical 757 take off.  If it was a fighter it would be called a &#8220;Zoom Climb&#8221; i reckon.<\/p>\n<table style=\"width:auto;\">\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/y4KeQCk8JdlQjG_5YDj-PtMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=embedwebsite\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-wJ5HVcNme-I\/VDdXVyghlTI\/AAAAAAABoHo\/OiFKDoq4lOE\/s640\/airforcec32-1.jpg\" height=\"412\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/109346098513022744611\/SeattleSpotting2014?authuser=0&#038;feat=embedwebsite\">Seattle Spotting 2014<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"width:auto;\">\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/7jCH71iQ75qX-jfztNzef9MTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=embedwebsite\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-CfL3WmUZ2Jg\/VDdXWWRPYvI\/AAAAAAABoHw\/6Qq3E_m-Fk8\/s640\/airforcec32-2.jpg\" height=\"479\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/109346098513022744611\/SeattleSpotting2014?authuser=0&#038;feat=embedwebsite\">Seattle Spotting 2014<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"width:auto;\">\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/v-saLVhiuP8K0F44vgzIjdMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=embedwebsite\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-B05S_lAkMgU\/VDdXW1TyPWI\/AAAAAAABoH0\/5mkpx3XlVhY\/s640\/airforcec32-3.jpg\" height=\"478\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/109346098513022744611\/SeattleSpotting2014?authuser=0&#038;feat=embedwebsite\">Seattle Spotting 2014<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Unlike the VC-25A (which is the military designation for the 747 that acts as &#8220;Air Force One&#8221;) the C-32 is a straight 757 bought as if it was a commerical aircraft.  No modifications for Air to Air Refueling or jamming equipment &#038; the like.  So sorry VP Biden, you are just rolling on a standard 757, albeit a pretty one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this week I managed to get Air Force 2 when it was visiting Seattle. I have spotted Air Force Once twice before (once in MSP and the other in SEA earlier this year, or was it last? I don&#8217;t remember) and getting the USAF&#8217;s 757 had been elusive. I have shots of their 737s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4,8,1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-spotting","category-expat","category-life-in-general","category-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p49RU0-1QK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7115,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7114\/revisions\/7115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}