{"id":17,"date":"2010-02-08T16:58:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T16:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2013-11-17T00:02:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T00:02:36","slug":"the-torpedo-trainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/military\/the-torpedo-trainer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Torpedo Trainer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over in Fife to look at something else, and realised I was near this &#8211; HMS Jackdaw near Crail is a WWII airfield, now mostly turned over to small industrial\/storage use. But, in a field full of sheep scoffing turnips, is the torpedo trainer.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Torpedo Trainer 1 (by Ben Cooper)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cycleologist\/4341185131\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Torpedo Trainer 1 (by Ben Cooper)\" alt=\"Torpedo Trainer 1 (by Ben Cooper)\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4020\/4341185131_a4f2cc7ab8_z.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It&#8217;s basically a big concrete torus, with the remains of a seascape painted on it &#8211; a projecting device used to hang from the ceiling, and the student sat in the middle &#8211; it&#8217;s WWII-era virtual reality, basically.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Torpedo Trainer 2 (by Ben Cooper)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cycleologist\/4341197471\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Torpedo Trainer 2 (by Ben Cooper)\" alt=\"Torpedo Trainer 2 (by Ben Cooper)\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2713\/4341197471_b34533a15f_z.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Torpedo Trainer 3 (by Ben Cooper)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cycleologist\/4341207929\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Torpedo Trainer 3 (by Ben Cooper)\" alt=\"Torpedo Trainer 3 (by Ben Cooper)\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4012\/4341207929_a7bc8e2351_z.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over in Fife to look at something else, and realised I was near this &#8211; HMS Jackdaw near Crail is a WWII airfield, now mostly turned over to small industrial\/storage use. But, in a field full of sheep scoffing turnips, is the torpedo trainer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/4341197471_b34533a15f_z.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3yGoo-h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1125,"href":"https:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/1125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}