{"id":1949,"date":"2019-07-18T19:02:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T19:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2019-07-18T19:02:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T19:02:33","slug":"tim-peake-takes-off-with-red-arrows-at-royal-international-air-tattoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/uk-airshow-news\/tim-peake-takes-off-with-red-arrows-at-royal-international-air-tattoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Peake takes off with Red Arrows at Royal International Air Tattoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/article-images-19\/Tim-Peake.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Peake at RIAT\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today, British astronaut Major Tim Peake fulfilled a boyhood dream, flying with the legendary Red Arrows at the Royal International Air Tattoo. Tim joined Red One, Squadron Leader Martin Pert, for the team\u2019s rehearsal flight before they take part in the world\u2019s greatest airshow over the next three days (19-21) in the skies above RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Talking about his flight with the Red Arrows, Major Tim Peake said: \u201cIt was truly incredible, I felt like I was living the dream. I have watched them since I was a young lad and I feel like this has been a boyhood dream fulfilment. It was a privilege to fly with these guys today. I love airshows and it is brilliant to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.airtattoo.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.airtattoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, British astronaut Major Tim Peake fulfilled a boyhood dream, flying with the legendary Red Arrows at the Royal International Air Tattoo. Tim joined Red One, Squadron Leader Martin Pert, for the team\u2019s rehearsal flight before they take part in the world\u2019s greatest airshow over the next three days (19-21) in the skies above RAF &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/uk-airshow-news\/tim-peake-takes-off-with-red-arrows-at-royal-international-air-tattoo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tim Peake takes off with Red Arrows at Royal International Air Tattoo<\/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":[4],"tags":[305,49,10,179],"class_list":["post-1949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk-airshow-news","tag-305","tag-july","tag-news","tag-royal-international-air-tattoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1950,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions\/1950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}