{"id":190890,"date":"2009-10-17T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/17\/richard-t-whitcomb-1921-2009\/"},"modified":"2009-10-17T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T21:12:00","slug":"richard-t-whitcomb-1921-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/17\/richard-t-whitcomb-1921-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard T. Whitcomb, 1921-2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img39.imageshack.us\/img39\/325\/nabb219whitcog200910141.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"400\" \/>A brilliant man who invented the Area Rule to reduce supersonic drag, the supercritical wing, and drag-reducing winglets, has <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB125556173987086009.html\">died at the age of 88<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brilliant man who invented the Area Rule to reduce supersonic drag, the supercritical wing, and drag-reducing winglets, has died at the age of 88.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,994],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190890"}],"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=190890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}