{"id":191456,"date":"2009-08-15T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/15\/israeli-air-force-test-flies-t-50-jet\/"},"modified":"2009-08-15T07:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T12:01:00","slug":"israeli-air-force-test-flies-t-50-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/15\/israeli-air-force-test-flies-t-50-jet\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Air Force Test-Flies T-50 Jet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img26.imageshack.us\/img26\/8686\/090803p04israeli1818649.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" \/>Israel has neglected its trainers for a while, I think that their Fouga Magisters were retired as primary trainers only a few years ago, and that they still use the A-4 Skyhawk as an advanced trainer, so it comes as no surprise that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koreatimes.co.kr\/www\/news\/nation\/2009\/08\/113_49564.html\">IAF has done some test flights in the supersonic T-50 trainer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They are also looking at the BAE Hawk and the (also supersonic, but barely) Aermacchi M-346, which ironically started as a Russian design.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s $25 million a pop for the T-50&#8230;.Great googly moogly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel has neglected its trainers for a while, I think that their Fouga Magisters were retired as primary trainers only a few years ago, and that they still use the A-4 Skyhawk as an advanced trainer, so it comes as no surprise that the IAF has done some test flights in the supersonic T-50 trainer. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,968,1159,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-education","category-israel","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191456"}],"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=191456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}