{"id":2986,"date":"2017-10-26T10:52:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T17:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/?page_id=2986"},"modified":"2026-01-29T17:43:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T01:43:18","slug":"thomas-shun-wong","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/veteran-stories\/air-force\/thomas-shun-wong\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Shun Wong"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2986\" class=\"elementor elementor-2986\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1792b82c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"1792b82c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-55002a5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"55002a5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p1\">Thomas Shun Wong was the younger brother <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/veteran-stories\/air-force\/robert-shun-wong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert S. Wong<\/a>.\u00a0 Both boys shared\u00a0a passion for flying which started when they were young.<\/p><div id=\"attachment_507\" style=\"width: 354px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-507\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-507\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tommy-and-his-model-plane-344x500.jpg\" alt=\"Tommy and his model plane\" width=\"344\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tommy-and-his-model-plane-344x500.jpg 344w, https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tommy-and-his-model-plane-137x200.jpg 137w, https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tommy-and-his-model-plane.jpg 413w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tommy S. Wong and his model plane.<\/p><\/div><p class=\"p1\">Thomas helped his brother build the Pientenpol Sky Scout airplane from a plan they had sent purchased. They assembled the aircraft using\u00a0a car engine, wood and canvas\u00a0sewn by their mother. It took them almost 2 years to build the plane.<\/p><div id=\"attachment_509\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-509\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-509\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tommy-and-the-Sky-Scout-450x266.jpg\" alt=\"Tommy and the Sky Scout\" width=\"450\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tommy-and-the-Sky-Scout-450x266.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tommy-and-the-Sky-Scout-200x118.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tommy-and-the-Sky-Scout.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-509\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tommy and the Sky Scout<\/p><\/div><p class=\"p1\">During the war, Tommy started off as a Leading Aircraftsman 2 with RCAF, and later obtained his pilots wings.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">After the war, both Thomas and his brother started a flying school in Ontario.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Shun Wong was the younger brother Robert S. Wong.\u00a0 Both boys shared\u00a0a passion for flying which started when they were young. Thomas helped his brother build the Pientenpol Sky Scout airplane from a plan they had sent purchased. They assembled the aircraft using\u00a0a car engine, wood and canvas\u00a0sewn by their mother. It took them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2987,"parent":378,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-nosidebar.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2986","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","post-preview"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2986"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5825,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2986\/revisions\/5825"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}