{"id":92,"date":"2016-01-07T06:13:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T12:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=92"},"modified":"2016-02-15T22:49:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T04:49:21","slug":"concorde-test-pilot-andre-turcat-has-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"Concorde test pilot Andre Turcat has passed away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andre Turcat, the very first pilot to ever fly the Concorde\u00a0passed away on January 4, 2016,\u00a0at the age of 94. Turcat was the chief French test pilot for\u00a0the Concorde program, and was the pilot\u00a0for prototype airplane&#8217;s maiden voyage in\u00a0March of\u00a01969, and the first pilot to take the aircraft\u00a0supersonic. Turcat\u00a0became a test pilot in the 1950&#8217;s\u00a0after serving in the\u00a0French Air Force, and joined the Concorde program in 1964.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-96\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/andre-turcat-p-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"andre-turcat-p\" width=\"607\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/andre-turcat-p-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/andre-turcat-p-768x519.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/andre-turcat-p-1024x692.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/andre-turcat-p.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andre Turcat, the very first pilot to ever fly the Concorde\u00a0passed away on January 4, 2016,\u00a0at the age of 94. Turcat was the chief French test pilot for\u00a0the Concorde program, and was the pilot\u00a0for prototype airplane&#8217;s maiden voyage in\u00a0March of\u00a01969, and the first pilot to take the aircraft\u00a0supersonic. Turcat\u00a0became a test pilot in the 1950&#8217;s\u00a0after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}