{"id":2145,"date":"2015-03-13T15:07:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T15:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/?p=2145"},"modified":"2015-03-13T15:21:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T15:21:28","slug":"the-walt-billet-loving-cup-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/2015\/03\/13\/the-walt-billet-loving-cup-group\/","title":{"rendered":"The Walt Billett Loving Cup Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At first glance, this picture doesn&#8217;t look too creepy, right?\u00a0 It is pretty normal, all the men who have won the Walt Billett Loving Cup posing with the trophy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/NMAM-Walt-Billett-Loving-Cup-0001-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2146\" src=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/NMAM-Walt-Billett-Loving-Cup-0001-1.jpg\" alt=\"17 men in suits pose with a trophy assembled from trash cans, bread pans and drain pipes.\" width=\"1678\" height=\"1340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/NMAM-Walt-Billett-Loving-Cup-0001-1.jpg 1678w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/NMAM-Walt-Billett-Loving-Cup-0001-1-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/NMAM-Walt-Billett-Loving-Cup-0001-1-1024x817.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/NMAM-Walt-Billett-Loving-Cup-0001-1-999x797.jpg 999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1678px) 100vw, 1678px\" \/><\/a>Except, look a bit closer.\u00a0 Not all these men are who they seem to be.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/NMAM-Walt-Billett-Loving-Cup-0001-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2149\" src=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/NMAM-Walt-Billett-Loving-Cup-0001-4.jpg\" alt=\"A close view of the picture shows that some early editing work was done - the faces of some of the men have been pasted onto the men in the picture.\" width=\"1451\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/NMAM-Walt-Billett-Loving-Cup-0001-4.jpg 1451w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/NMAM-Walt-Billett-Loving-Cup-0001-4-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/NMAM-Walt-Billett-Loving-Cup-0001-4-1024x635.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/NMAM-Walt-Billett-Loving-Cup-0001-4-999x619.jpg 999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1451px) 100vw, 1451px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/NMAM-Walt-Billett-Loving-Cup-0001-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2148\" src=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/NMAM-Walt-Billett-Loving-Cup-0001-3.jpg\" alt=\"A close view of the picture shows that some early editing work was done - the faces of some of the men have been pasted onto the men in the picture.\" width=\"1292\" height=\"735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/NMAM-Walt-Billett-Loving-Cup-0001-3.jpg 1292w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/NMAM-Walt-Billett-Loving-Cup-0001-3-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/NMAM-Walt-Billett-Loving-Cup-0001-3-1024x582.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/NMAM-Walt-Billett-Loving-Cup-0001-3-999x568.jpg 999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1292px) 100vw, 1292px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/NMAM-Walt-Billett-Loving-Cup-0001-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2147\" src=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/NMAM-Walt-Billett-Loving-Cup-0001-2.jpg\" alt=\"A close view of the picture shows that some early editing work was done - the faces of some of the men have been pasted onto the men in the picture.\" width=\"1846\" height=\"1196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/NMAM-Walt-Billett-Loving-Cup-0001-2.jpg 1846w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/NMAM-Walt-Billett-Loving-Cup-0001-2-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/NMAM-Walt-Billett-Loving-Cup-0001-2-1024x663.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/NMAM-Walt-Billett-Loving-Cup-0001-2-999x647.jpg 999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1846px) 100vw, 1846px\" \/><\/a>Look for more info on the Walt Billett Loving Cup in the &#8220;History Preserved&#8221; column of the April 2015 issue of <em>Model Aviation<\/em>.<br \/>\nPhoto credit: National Model Aviation Museum Archives.\u00a0 Photo of Walt Billett Loving Cup with cut and pasted heads, from #0001 AMA Collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first glance, this picture doesn&#8217;t look too creepy, right?\u00a0 It is pretty normal, all the men who have won the Walt Billett Loving Cup posing with the trophy. Except, look a bit closer.\u00a0 Not all these men are who they seem to be. Look for more info on the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,135,77],"tags":[136],"class_list":["post-2145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-museum","category-photographs","category-trophy","tag-old-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2145"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2155,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions\/2155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}