{"id":4424,"date":"2011-08-29T12:32:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T18:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=4424"},"modified":"2018-06-01T11:26:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T17:26:19","slug":"birds-eye-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=4424","title":{"rendered":"Bird\u2019s-eye view"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/photo.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4425\" title=\"photo\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/photo-555x414.jpg\" alt=\"An arial photo of UCCS campus from a b17 bomber by Derek Cohn\" width=\"555\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/photo-555x414.jpg 555w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/photo-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UCCS Mountain Lions supporter and local restaurateur Derek Cohn recently shared this view of the campus from the bombardier\u2019s seat of a WWII-era Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I flew in a WWII B-17 a few weeks ago, and took this picture while over UCCS. \u00a0I sat up in the bombardier&#8217;s seat, and the equipment in front of me is the Norden bomb sight. \u00a0It&#8217;s not everyday that you get to see UCCS from the bombardier&#8217;s seat in a B-17,&#8221; Cohn said.<\/p>\n<p>In the foreground is a Norden bomb sight which was used to accurately drop munitions during WWII as well as Korean and Vietnam wars. The B-17 was used by the U.S. Army Air Corps in its campaign against Germany and was a four-engine bomber known for its toughness and high altitude capability. The U.S. Army Air Corps is now known as the U.S. Air Force.<\/p>\n<p>The B-17 was in Colorado Springs in May as part of the Liberty Foundation\u2019s Salute to Veterans Tour.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; Photo by Derek Cohn<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>UCCS Mountain Lions supporter and local restaurateur Derek Cohn recently shared this view of the campus from the bombardier\u2019s seat of a WWII-era Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. &#8220;I flew in a WWII B-17 a few <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=4424\" title=\"Bird\u2019s-eye view\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[197],"class_list":["post-4424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-photo-features","tag-photo-feature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/photo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-19m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4428,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions\/4428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}