{"id":1343,"date":"2009-09-10T12:32:24","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T12:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:28:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:28:21","slug":"whee-i-mean-oops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/whee-i-mean-oops\/","title":{"rendered":"Whee! I mean, oops"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-body-2321295974312532144\">Honestly , it could happen to anyone. I mean, I bet it&#8217;s happened to you, too. You know how it is. You&#8217;re sitting in a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Handley_Page_Victor\">Victor bomber<\/a>, which is one of the most\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Derek_Meddings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Derek Meddings-esque<\/a>\u00a0aircraft ever to have actually existed but which isn&#8217;t actually, you know, at this present moment in time, um, officially air-worthy &#8230; And neither you nor your co-pilot or indeed the plane are licensed to fly &#8230; But anyway, you&#8217;re sitting in it and you&#8217;re doing a 100 knot run down the runway to give the spectators a thrill and you\u00a0really\u00a0mean to slow down but your co-pilot freezes and doesn&#8217;t throttle back in time and you keep accelerating and &#8230; well, what would any plane do in those circumstances?<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/hampshire\/8246544.stm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Take off, that&#8217;s what<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div>Accident, my afterburners.<object width=\"560\" height=\"340\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OI_K_SG4on8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"560\" height=\"340\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OI_K_SG4on8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-body-2321295974312532144\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly , it could happen to anyone. I mean, I bet it&#8217;s happened to you, too. You know how it is. You&#8217;re sitting in a\u00a0Victor bomber, which is one of the most\u00a0Derek Meddings-esque\u00a0aircraft ever to have actually existed but which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/whee-i-mean-oops\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[256],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pensees","tag-accidental-take-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4078,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions\/4078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}