{"id":4279,"date":"2016-07-27T15:17:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T20:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.15.223.162\/?page_id=4279"},"modified":"2016-08-02T17:03:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T22:03:51","slug":"stinson-l-5g-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.highskywing.org\/?page_id=4279","title":{"rendered":"Stinson L-5 Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4325\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/52.15.223.162\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/L-5futureshox.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4325\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4325\" alt=\"Photo from Wikipedia\" src=\"http:\/\/52.15.223.162\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/L-5futureshox-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.highskywing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/L-5futureshox-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.highskywing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/L-5futureshox.jpg 666w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4325\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>The Stinson L-5 Sentinel, while only produced between 1942 and 1945, was a favorite workhorse on the battlefield and was used by all branches of the US Military as well as the British Royal Air Force. It was purpose-built to be a military aircraft and had no civilian counterpart. \u00a0While almost 3,900 L-5&#8217;s were built, only 115 of the L-5G model were constructed, making ours somewhat of a rarity.<\/h3>\n<h3>The sturdy Sentinel proved it&#8217;s worth on the battle field during both World War II and the Korean conflict in such varied capacities as: delivering personnel to, and the wounded from, the battle field, aerial photography, controlling vehicle convoys, para-dropping food, supplies and ammunition, laying communication wire, distributing propaganda leaflets, spraying pesticide, transporting prisoners and directing fighter-bombers to ground targets.<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\"><strong>Powerplant:<\/strong> \u00a01 x Lycoming O-435-1, 185 hp<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Never Exceed Speed:<\/strong> \u00a0163 mph<\/li>\n<li><strong>Range:<\/strong> \u00a0375 miles<\/li>\n<li><strong>Service Ceiling:<\/strong> \u00a015,800 ft<\/li>\n<li><strong>Number Produced:<\/strong> \u00a03,896<\/li>\n<li><strong>Produced:<\/strong> 1942-1945<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>For more information refer to the following site from which information was taken for this article: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stinson_L-5_Sentinel\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stinson_L-5_Sentinel<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stinson L-5 Sentinel, while only produced between 1942 and 1945, was a favorite workhorse on the battlefield and was used by all branches of the US Military as well as the British Royal Air Force. It was purpose-built to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highskywing.org\/?page_id=4279\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highskywing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4279"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highskywing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highskywing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highskywing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highskywing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4279"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.highskywing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5178,"href":"http:\/\/www.highskywing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4279\/revisions\/5178"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highskywing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highskywing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}