{"id":184667,"date":"2012-02-18T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/02\/18\/you-can-always-depend-on-flight-international-for-a-cutaway\/"},"modified":"2012-02-18T06:10:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T11:10:00","slug":"you-can-always-depend-on-flight-international-for-a-cutaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/02\/18\/you-can-always-depend-on-flight-international-for-a-cutaway\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can Always Depend on Flight International for a Cutaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; text-align: center; width: 400px float: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/TbvG4l.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/TbvG4l.jpg\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Full Size Pic at Link<\/i><\/div>\n<p>This time, they are doing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/news\/articles\/cutaway-technical-description-how-boeing-developed-the-f-15-silent-eagle-367978\/\">Boeing F-15 Silent Eagle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing as how the F-15SE is supposed to have a very small forward aspect radar cross section, I have to wonder about their guess about the radar.<\/p>\n<p>I am <b>not<\/b> am expert in low observability, but it seems to me that the radar would be angled off the centerline in order to reduce RCS.<\/p>\n<p>While the full fit-out for the aircraft is not certain, how IRST is integrated into the airframe is unclear, for example, but the flight control system is is going to a digital fly by wire system.<\/p>\n<p>It should be a good deal on fly away cost, but cost per hour might be higher than its likely competitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full Size Pic at Link This time, they are doing the Boeing F-15 Silent Eagle. Seeing as how the F-15SE is supposed to have a very small forward aspect radar cross section, I have to wonder about their guess about the radar. I am not am expert in low observability, but it seems to me &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}