{"id":27755,"date":"2012-10-16T06:20:14","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T13:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/?p=27755"},"modified":"2012-10-16T06:24:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T13:24:30","slug":"it-intrigues-me-to-no-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/it-intrigues-me-to-no-end\/","title":{"rendered":"It Intrigues Me to No End!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DPKIWI14641.jpg?resize=585%2C473&#038;quality=100\" alt=\"\" title=\"DPKIWI1464\" width=\"585\" height=\"473\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27756\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The A6M Zero intrigues me to no end because this very simple looking plane caused us so much trouble in WWII. Lightweight (1 person can push it our of a hangar), agile, fragile and 1 bullet could blow it up, at the beginning of WWII it and its pilots just caused havoc in the Pacific. At the beginning of our K&#038;M Adventures in ME, we were at the Wiscasset at their airshow that featured my good friends of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flyingfreedom.us\/\"><strong>Texas Legends Flying Museum<\/strong><\/a>. Warren was at the stick and man, can he show off this planes abilities! This is a simple, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhphotovideo.com\/c\/product\/838794-REG\/Nikon_25482_D4_Digital_SLR_Camera.html\/BI\/8449\/KBID\/9350\/kw\/NID4\/DFF\/d10-v2-t1-xNID4\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>D4<\/strong><\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhphotovideo.com\/c\/product\/688212-USA\/Nikon_2187_AF_S_NIKKOR_200_400mm_f_4G.html\/BI\/8449\/KBID\/9350\/kw\/NI2004004AED\/DFF\/d10-v2-t1-xNI2004004AED\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>200-400<\/strong><\/a> ground to air shot.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DPA2ATXME0588.jpg?resize=585%2C473&#038;quality=100\" alt=\"\" title=\"DPA2ATXME0588\" width=\"585\" height=\"473\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27757\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier that same day, my buds asked if I wanted to go flying&#8230;do a &#8220;little&#8221; air to air? Well Duh, you think?! So we went up for a 90min flight over the Maine cost and the Atlantic. Seeing the Zero over the water was really quite a visual treat. And it didn&#8217;t suck either! Shooting out of a Piper Cherokee with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhphotovideo.com\/c\/product\/838794-REG\/Nikon_25482_D4_Digital_SLR_Camera.html\/BI\/8449\/KBID\/9350\/kw\/NID4\/DFF\/d10-v2-t1-xNID4\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>D4<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhphotovideo.com\/c\/product\/644741-USA\/Nikon_2185_AF_S_Nikkor_70_200mm_f_2_8G.html\/BI\/8449\/KBID\/9350\/kw\/NI7020028\/DFF\/d10-v2-t1-xNI7020028\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>70-200VR2<\/strong><\/a>, I was able at times to just focus on the Zero. It made me wonder what it would have been like to be a teenager in a FM-2 seeing this below me just moments before diving on it for the kill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The A6M Zero intrigues me to no end because this very simple looking plane caused us so much trouble in WWII. 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