{"id":1347815,"date":"2022-02-27T20:38:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T01:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1347815"},"modified":"2022-02-27T20:38:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T01:38:57","slug":"watch-100-year-old-veteran-takes-flight-aboard-wwii-trainer-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-100-year-old-veteran-takes-flight-aboard-wwii-trainer-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: 100-Year-Old Veteran Takes Flight Aboard WWII Trainer Plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-100-year-old-veteran-takes-flight-aboard-wwii-trainer-plane%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1347815&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/imgonline-com-ua-FrameBlurred-aJF5XW8laU-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A 100-year-old veteran went for a flight aboard a World War II (WWII) trainer plane Saturday, thanks to the Arizona nonprofit Grounded No More Veteran Flight Lift.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSylvester \u2018Sy\u2019 Becker served in the U.S. Army Air Corps as an engine mechanic on the Consolidated B-24 liberators in England during WWII,\u201d KNXY-TV <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc15.com\/news\/uplifting-arizona\/veteran-gets-joy-ride-in-wwii-era-plane\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>On Saturday, the nonprofit\u2019s founder and CEO, Tony Anger, took the 100-year-old for a flight aboard a Fairchild PT-26 WWII trainer called <em>Amazing Grace<\/em>, according to KNXY-TV. After departing from Falcon Field Airport in Mesa, Arizona, the pair flew\u00a0past Weaver\u2019s Needle and above the Superstition Mountains.<\/p>\n<p><span> \u201cIt was a nice flight,\u201d Becker told KNXY-TV. \u201c[Tony\u2019s] a good pilot.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> \u201cIt was fun watching his face,\u201d Anger said. \u201cHe was smiling the whole time and looking around.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Becker\u2019s joy ride was Grounded No More\u2019s 469th honorary flight. In December, Pearl Harbor survivor Jack Holder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc15.com\/news\/uplifting-arizona\/valley-veteran-takes-flight-for-100th-birthday\">celebrated<\/a> his 100th birthday a day early by taking a flight aboard the <em>Amazing Grace<\/em> with Anger, according to a previous KNXY-TV story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI thought it was great. It brought back all the memories,\u201d Holder, a Navy veteran, told the outlet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Following Pearl Harbor, he flew in more than 100 missions, including the Battle of Midway, the outlet reported.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>Watch Below:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p><span>On Saturday, Anger told KNXY-TV the flights often have a profound influence on veterans:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>It brings back memories of good times. I actually had a gentleman call me up last year and told me he was on the verge of suicide until he came out and went for a ride, and when he saw all these people coming out and loving on him and caring about him and knowing that their service meant something to them, it totally changed his whole perspective on life.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The organization is six years old, and while it gives free flights to veterans of all ages aboard the Fairchild PT-26, it has begun offering flights to Gold Star families aboard an IAR-823, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/groundednomoreveteranflightlift.com\/\">its<\/a> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 100-year-old veteran went for a flight aboard a World War II (WWII) trainer plane Saturday, thanks to the Arizona nonprofit Grounded No More Veteran Flight Lift. \u201cSylvester \u2018Sy\u2019 Becker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1347815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1347815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1347815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1347815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}