{"id":5602,"date":"2008-02-11T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T16:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wend.ca\/?p=5602"},"modified":"2015-12-31T21:27:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T04:27:26","slug":"hawc-the-helicopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=5602","title":{"rendered":"HAWC the Helicopter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend <em>La Ni\u00f1a<\/em> got to partake in another aero adventure; this time with a helicopter: HAWC the Helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how many of you know HAWC&#8217;s history &#8212; but the helicopter came about after the death of Constable Rick Sonnenberg who was killed in 1993 as he laid a spike belt during a high speed pursuit chase. It was Rick&#8217;s sister who led the campaign to get CPS a helicopter and HAWC1 came to fruition in 1995. Recently Calgary raised the funds need to put HAWC2 into the air.<\/p>\n<p>During my time as a civilian employee I got to partake in pursuit training &#8212; as well as a ride along and sit along (in dispatch). I did not, however, make it to the fly along. So, <em>La Ni\u00f1a<\/em> is one step ahead of me because she got to actually sit inside HAWC1.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-5602 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:\/\/wend.ca\/?attachment_id=75199'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/med-img_9484-400x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wend.ca\/?attachment_id=75200'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/sm-img_9480-400x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wend.ca\/?attachment_id=75201'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/sm-img_9481-400x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wend.ca\/?attachment_id=75202'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/sm-img_9485-400x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nThis weekend La Ni\u00f1a got to partake in another aero adventure; this&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=5602\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;HAWC the Helicopter&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,475,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alberta","category-calgary","category-canada","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5602"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75198,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602\/revisions\/75198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}