{"id":113884,"date":"2024-08-24T19:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/james-doohan-craziest-pilot-royal-canadian-air-force\/"},"modified":"2024-08-24T19:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T09:00:12","slug":"star-treks-scotty-in-ww2-why-james-doohan-was-called-the-craziest-pilot-in-the-royal-canadian-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=113884","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek&#8217;s &#8220;Scotty&#8221; In WW2: Why James Doohan Was Called &#8220;The Craziest Pilot&#8221; In The Royal Canadian Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    Old-school science fiction buffs will almost certainly recognize at least some of the above quotes as belonging to dear ol&#8217; Lieutenant Commander Montgomery &#8220;Scotty&#8221; Scott, Chief Engineer of the starship USS <em>Enterprise<\/em> in the enduringly popular <em>Star Trek <\/em>television and movie franchise. <a href=\"https:\/\/federationhq.ca\/scotty.htm\" >The late great James Doohan played Scotty<\/a> in the original TV and film series, and Simon Pegg in the reboot.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long before he was &#8220;Scotty in the mega-popular Star Trek sci-fi franchise, James Doohan was a real-life military aviator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,713,2035,408,412,6808],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-canada","category-celebrity","category-history","category-military","category-second-world-war"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113885,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113884\/revisions\/113885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}