{"id":5904,"date":"2025-03-21T11:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T16:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/?p=5904"},"modified":"2025-03-21T12:07:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T17:07:22","slug":"southern-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/southern-air\/","title":{"rendered":"SOUTHERN AIR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/boats\/southern_air\/2_SOUTHERN_AIR_IV_TOO_Built_by_Lauterbach_Morgan_City_1964.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:1439px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure><br \/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/boats\/southern_air\/5_Y-269_LipShip_Y-4_Playtime_Y-83_IDK_Y-17_SOUTHERN_AIR_IV_TOO_Ypsilanti_Michigan_1970.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><br \/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/boats\/southern_air\/7-Y-17_station_wagon_C-130.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>F.C. &#8216;Doc&#8217; Moor campaigned very successfully in the Y class with his SOUTHERN AIR hydros, winning 9 National Championships from 1957 to 1972. He also did well with his L class hydros winning 2 National Championships. He set numerous speed records along the way. Some folks may not know this, but he also tried his hand in the E and A class hydro classes. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/boats\/southern_air\/Southern_Air.html\">here<\/a> to read more about &#8216;Doc&#8217; and his boats (and his neat day time business).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F.C. &#8216;Doc&#8217; Moor campaigned very successfully in the Y class with his SOUTHERN AIR hydros, winning 9 National Championships from 1957 to 1972. He also did well with his L class hydros winning 2 National Championships. He set numerous speed records along the way. Some folks may not know this, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boats","category-racing-memories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5904"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5914,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904\/revisions\/5914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}