{"id":188026,"date":"2010-12-26T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T03:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/26\/f136-alternate-engine-included-in-stopgap-spending-measure\/"},"modified":"2010-12-26T22:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T03:08:00","slug":"f136-alternate-engine-included-in-stopgap-spending-measure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/26\/f136-alternate-engine-included-in-stopgap-spending-measure\/","title":{"rendered":"F136 Alternate Engine Included in Stopgap Spending Measure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-12-22\/ge-alternative-f-35-engine-included-in-stopgap-funding-measure.html\">the alternate engine for the JSF is funded through March<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some people see this as meaningless pork, but I remember the issues with Pratt and Whitney as the soul source supplier for F-15s and F-16s in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and it was ugly, so I am inclined to support the engine as a 2<sup>nd<\/sup> best alternative, with the first best alternative to be cancellation of the JSF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the alternate engine for the JSF is funded through March. Some people see this as meaningless pork, but I remember the issues with Pratt and Whitney as the soul source supplier for F-15s and F-16s in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and it was ugly, so I am inclined to support the engine &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,998,1211,1020,1128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-congress","category-defense","category-legislation","category-propulsion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188026"}],"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=188026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}