Some Tallahassee veterans were taking to the skies over their hometown on Friday, Oct. 31. They were part of the annual Dream Flight program.<\/p>\n
Florida Healthcare Association CEO Emmett Reed welcomed the veterans to Friday’s Dream Flight happening.<\/p>\n
“You ready to jump out of a plane today?” he quipped as the vets and family members laughed “Oh, we’re not parachuting today! Except for this gentleman; how many jumps do you have under your belt?”<\/p>\n
To which former Navy pilot Robin Hastings replied, “One-hundred-thirty-seven.”<\/p>\n
“Well, how about that?” exclaimed Reed. “When I made that joke, he put me in my place real quick!”<\/p>\n
Although, before he was wheeled out to the tarmac and the waiting aircraft, Hastings promised to stay safely strapped in the passenger seat.<\/p>\n
“Why jump out of a perfectly good airplane that’s going to land anyway?” he said with a twinkle in his eye.<\/p>\n
He was one of the dozen or so veterans who got to ride in the World War II vintage biplane for a 15-minute flight over Tallahassee. Dream flight partners are the Florida Healthcare Association, Florida Department of Veterans Affairs and Florida Veterans Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some Tallahassee veterans were taking to the skies over their hometown on Friday, Oct. 31. They were part…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-30699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}