{"id":1913,"date":"2016-05-25T16:40:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T15:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2016-05-26T11:16:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T10:16:15","slug":"trip-report-historical-south-africa-to-the-uk-september-1998","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/flying\/trip-report-historical-south-africa-to-the-uk-september-1998","title":{"rendered":"Trip Report (Historical) &#8211; South Africa to the UK, September 1998"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought my A36 Bonanza in July 1998 in South Africa when the currency was having one of its periodic falls. I wrote up the story of the ferry flight for Aero Africa magazine (RIP), and have just found it again. For the full story, <a href=\"http:\/\/gzloj.net\">see my A36 Blog.<\/a><\/p>\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_1916\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1916\" style=\"width: 1813px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/hangout\/wp-content\/uploads\/1998_09_03_01_wonderboom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/hangout\/wp-content\/uploads\/1998_09_03_01_wonderboom.jpg\" alt=\"Loading at Wonderboom\" width=\"1813\" height=\"1180\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1916\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1916\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loading at Wonderboom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1913 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/flying\/trip-report-historical-south-africa-to-the-uk-september-1998\/attachment\/1998_front'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/hangout\/wp-content\/uploads\/1998_front.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"A36 Bonanza ZS-LOJ - first look\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1914\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1914'>\n\t\t\t\tA36 Bonanza ZS-LOJ &#8211; 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I wrote up the story of the ferry flight for Aero Africa magazine (RIP), and have just found it again. For the full story, see my A36 Blog. For the full story, see my &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/flying\/trip-report-historical-south-africa-to-the-uk-september-1998\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trip Report (Historical) &#8211; South Africa to the UK, September 1998&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"telegram_tosend":false,"telegram_tosend_message":"","telegram_tosend_target":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[255,348,317,8],"class_list":["post-1913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flying","tag-a36","tag-ferry-flight","tag-flying","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}