{"id":87915,"date":"2024-07-16T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/challenges-restoring-wwii-military-planes\/"},"modified":"2024-07-16T20:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T10:00:11","slug":"what-are-the-challenges-of-restoring-wwii-military-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=87915","title":{"rendered":"What Are The Challenges Of Restoring WWII Military Planes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    I&#8217;m a big-time admirer of vintage military aircraft restoration projects. And not just for the personal joys I&#8217;ve derived from riding airworthy WWII warbirds such as a <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/b-17-bomber-incredible-aspects-list\/\">B-17 Flying Fortress<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/active-b-25-bombers-2023\/\">B-25 Mitchell AKA PBJ <\/a>(though that certainly helps). These restoration projects help keep aviation history alive in tangible form, as opposed to just an abstract passage in a textbook or a clip of grainy octogenarian newsreel footage.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restoring WWII military planes is a worthwhile endeavor, but what are the inherent challenges of these projects?<\/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":[396,10980,11557,408,412,5981,5024],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-commemorative","category-commemorative-air-force","category-history","category-military","category-restore","category-world-war-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87915","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=87915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87916,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87915\/revisions\/87916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}