{"id":731,"date":"2019-05-03T14:34:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T14:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidseall.co.uk\/blog\/?p=731"},"modified":"2019-05-03T19:05:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T19:05:04","slug":"day-with-the-raf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidseall.co.uk\/blog\/?p=731","title":{"rendered":"Day with the RAF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidseall.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_2835-1-e1556893668786.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-733\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidseall.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_2835-1-e1556893668786-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidseall.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_2835-1-e1556893668786-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.davidseall.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_2835-1-e1556893668786-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An amazing day out at RAF Benson with colleagues from the Worshipful Company of World Traders.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was interesting and informative to chat with the officers and men of the airbase and learn about how they maintained and flew their flight of Boeing Chinook helicopters. Then after lunch in the Officers&#8217; Mess it was off on a trip to the City for a flight around Canary Wharf followed by a close view of Heathrow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidseall.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_2826-e1556893980103.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-734\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidseall.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_2826-e1556893980103-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidseall.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_2826-e1556893980103-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.davidseall.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_2826-e1556893980103-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidseall.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_2808-e1556893996221.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-735\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidseall.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_2808-e1556893996221-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidseall.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_2808-e1556893996221-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.davidseall.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_2808-e1556893996221-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidseall.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_2807-e1556894009421.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-736\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidseall.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_2807-e1556894009421-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidseall.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_2807-e1556894009421-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.davidseall.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_2807-e1556894009421-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidseall.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_2816-e1556894033649.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-737\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidseall.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_2816-e1556894033649-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidseall.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_2816-e1556894033649-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.davidseall.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_2816-e1556894033649-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A truly astounding day out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; An amazing day out at RAF Benson with colleagues from the Worshipful Company of World Traders. &nbsp; It was interesting and informative to chat with the officers and men of the airbase and learn about how they maintained and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidseall.co.uk\/blog\/?p=731\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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