{"id":12,"date":"2006-11-26T17:48:15","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T17:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oldshebbearian\/?p=12"},"modified":"2015-08-31T15:17:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T14:17:52","slug":"paddy-hipperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldshebbearian.co.uk\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Paddy Hipperson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The OSA has learned of the death of Paddy Hipperson who with Trevor Ward enjoyed iconic sporting status in the early 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>He was at Shebbear from 1942-54 after which he entered Cranwell.<\/p>\n<p>In a 20-year career with the RAF, he flew fighter aircraft, trained as a flying instructor and then transferred to RAF Transport Command.<\/p>\n<p>Later he flew civilian aircraft. He was a Boeing 747 Captain with Virgin Atlantic when he retired in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>He died following a heart attack in May 2004, aged 69. A full obituary will appear in the Shebbearian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The OSA has learned of the death of Paddy Hipperson who with Trevor Ward enjoyed iconic sporting status in the early 1950s. He was at Shebbear from 1942-54 after which he entered Cranwell. In a 20-year career with the RAF, he flew fighter aircraft, trained as a flying instructor and then transferred to RAF Transport [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldshebbearian.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldshebbearian.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldshebbearian.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldshebbearian.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldshebbearian.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oldshebbearian.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13,"href":"https:\/\/oldshebbearian.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldshebbearian.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldshebbearian.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldshebbearian.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}