{"id":42524,"date":"2026-05-22T06:37:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/?p=42524"},"modified":"2026-05-22T06:37:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:37:32","slug":"former-canadian-snowbird-blenheims-chris-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/blogs\/mornings\/2026\/05\/former-canadian-snowbird-blenheims-chris-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Canadian Snowbird, Blenheim&#8217;s Chris Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1696\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.briwebapp.net\/2022\/12\/e4726d7e-royal-canadian-forces-snowbirds.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29085\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7075485855781496;width:92px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storage.briwebapp.net\/2022\/12\/e4726d7e-royal-canadian-forces-snowbirds.png 1200w, https:\/\/storage.briwebapp.net\/2022\/12\/e4726d7e-royal-canadian-forces-snowbirds-768x1085.png 768w, https:\/\/storage.briwebapp.net\/2022\/12\/e4726d7e-royal-canadian-forces-snowbirds-695x982.png 695w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The federal government announced earlier this week that it&#8217;s retiring the fleet of Tudor jets used by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/air-force\/services\/showcasing\/snowbirds.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Canadian Forces Snowbirds<\/a> after this year&#8217;s run of performances, replacing it with new planes sometime in the early 2030s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We connected with former Snowbirds leader, Blenheim&#8217;s Chris Hope who is now a WestJet pilot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MAY 21 - MJR Chris Hope by 943CKSY\" width=\"900\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F2325490688&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;maxwidth=900\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The federal government announced earlier this week that it&#8217;s retiring the fleet of Tudor jets used by the Canadian Forces Snowbirds after this year&#8217;s run of performances, replacing it with new planes sometime in the early 2030s. We connected with former Snowbirds leader, Blenheim&#8217;s Chris Hope who is now a WestJet pilot.","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":12126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1406,5430,26],"class_list":["post-42524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mornings","tag-canadian-forces-snowbirds","tag-chris-hope","tag-ckmornings"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-29 13:31:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/943cksy.com\/blogs\/mornings\/2026\/05\/former-canadian-snowbird-blenheims-chris-hope\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42525,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42524\/revisions\/42525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}