{"id":1825,"date":"2011-04-11T13:32:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T21:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2011-04-11T13:37:06","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T21:37:06","slug":"flying-pencil-found-off-kent-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/flying-pencil-found-off-kent-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying Pencil Found off Kent Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/plane.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1826\" title=\"WWII plane\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/plane.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/plane.jpg 213w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/plane-60x45.jpg 60w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/plane-90x65.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a>A Dornier 17 Nazi aircraft used during the Second World War has been  located at the bottom of the English Channel just off the Kent coast in  an area known as the Goodwin Sands.<\/p>\n<p>A museum in Great Britain wants to pull it out of the Channel and have  it restored. The plane is in good condition with some damage to the  forward cockpit, observation windows and propellers.<\/p>\n<p>The plane was originally shot down during the Battle of Britain landing  upside down in water that is no deeper than 50 feet. In fact, during low  water times, the plane has been visible since it was shot down on  August 26, 1940, seventy one years ago. In August, 54\u00a0Dorniers were shot  down. \u00a0A total of 171 were lost during the Battle of Britain.\u00a0The Royal Air Force Museum in London is very interested in preserving  the plane which was more popularly known as the flying pencil because of  its shape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Dornier 17 Nazi aircraft used during the Second World War has been located at the bottom of the English Channel just off the Kent coast in an area known as the Goodwin Sands. A&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[998,999,997],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-news","category-uncategorized","tag-english-channel","tag-nazi","tag-plane-found"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1834,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions\/1834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}