{"id":193261,"date":"2009-01-04T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/04\/i-always-had-a-soft-spot-for-this-aircraft\/"},"modified":"2009-01-04T06:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T11:08:00","slug":"i-always-had-a-soft-spot-for-this-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/04\/i-always-had-a-soft-spot-for-this-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"I Always Had a Soft Spot for This Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img528.imageshack.us\/img528\/7785\/aw01052009113l4954960pw6.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"350\" \/>It appears that they are going to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationnow.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;issueDate=2009-01-05&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2009\/01\/05\/AW_01_05_2009_p53-104936.xml\">sending the canard equipped F-15 testbed to the boneyard<\/a>. (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Paid subscription required<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>Originally called the short-take-off\/maneuver-technology demonstration (SMTD) about 20 years ago, the aircraft was originally equipped with F-18 tail derived canards, square thrust vectoring nozzles, and a redesigned landing gear intended for rough field operations.<\/p>\n<p>It demonstrated impressive improvements in STOL peformance and agility.<\/p>\n<p>NASA is currently using it to research its quiet boom supersonic aircraft technology, as they felt the need to test a canard equipped airframe as one of the configurations.<\/p>\n<p>When they are done, it&#8217;s going to the boneyard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that they are going to be sending the canard equipped F-15 testbed to the boneyard. (Paid subscription required) Originally called the short-take-off\/maneuver-technology demonstration (SMTD) about 20 years ago, the aircraft was originally equipped with F-18 tail derived canards, square thrust vectoring nozzles, and a redesigned landing gear intended for rough field operations. It &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-193261","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\/193261"}],"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=193261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}