{"id":1108,"date":"2010-01-29T15:13:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T23:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2010-01-29T15:13:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T23:13:49","slug":"way-up-in-the-middle-of-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1108","title":{"rendered":"Way Up in the Middle of the Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouver2010.com\/\">Winter Olympics<\/a> start in two weeks, and there is much activity at the Vancouver airport.  The sound of high-powered turbine aircraft engines fills the air.<\/p>\n<p>My office is right under the approach path to runway 26L, so I see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforce.forces.gc.ca\/v2\/equip\/cf18\/index-eng.asp\">CF-18 Hornet<\/a> fighter jets<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1109\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1109\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/archives\/1108\/cf-188a_banking\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1109\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/CF-188A_BANKING-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"CF-18\" title=\"CF-18\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/CF-188A_BANKING-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/balafon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/CF-188A_BANKING-150x92.jpg 150w, https:\/\/balafon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/CF-188A_BANKING.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1109\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CF-18<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforce.forces.gc.ca\/v2\/equip\/ch146\/index-eng.asp\">CH-146 Griffin<\/a> helicopters<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1110\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1110\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/archives\/1108\/060721-f-8217w-445\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1110\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/CH-146_Griffon_Helicopter-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"CH-146\" title=\"CH-146\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/CH-146_Griffon_Helicopter-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/balafon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/CH-146_Griffon_Helicopter-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/balafon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/CH-146_Griffon_Helicopter-1024x667.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1110\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CH-146<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>flying around several times a day.<\/p>\n<p>Rumor has it that two <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Halifax-class_frigate\">Halifax-class frigates<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1111\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1111\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/archives\/1108\/ls-hanson\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1111\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Vancouver_waterlevel-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"HMCS Vancouver\" title=\"HMCS Vancouver\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Vancouver_waterlevel-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/balafon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Vancouver_waterlevel-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/balafon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Vancouver_waterlevel-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/balafon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Vancouver_waterlevel.jpg 1350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1111\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HMCS Vancouver<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>will be anchored offshore to provide extra air defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Winter Olympics start in two weeks, and there is much activity at the Vancouver airport. The sound of high-powered turbine aircraft engines fills the air. My office is right under the approach path to runway 26L, so I see CF-18 Hornet fighter jets and CH-146 Griffin helicopters flying around several times a day. Rumor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1108\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Way Up in the Middle of the Air&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[140],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-journal","tag-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions\/1123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}