{"id":193813,"date":"2008-11-15T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/15\/raf-gets-jiggy-on-turboprop-primary-trainer\/"},"modified":"2008-11-15T06:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T11:08:00","slug":"raf-gets-jiggy-on-turboprop-primary-trainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/15\/raf-gets-jiggy-on-turboprop-primary-trainer\/","title":{"rendered":"RAF Gets Jiggy on Turboprop Primary Trainer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The RAF is looking for a trainer to replace its Shorts Tucano, which is rather long in the truth, and if the attached pictures are accurate, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A21ae5415-aabd-49e0-967b-03c976eea0f5\">the designers seem to have a fixation on bizarre variations of the BAE Hawk trainer<\/a>,the first basically being a hawk with a turboprop dropped in, and the second being a Hawk on acid.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img525.imageshack.us\/img525\/1926\/138a3f6d4e7648a7adc4762ws7.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img221.imageshack.us\/img221\/897\/3e1395a7a6de4d358d1cdd1tc8.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RAF is looking for a trainer to replace its Shorts Tucano, which is rather long in the truth, and if the attached pictures are accurate, the designers seem to have a fixation on bizarre variations of the BAE Hawk trainer,the first basically being a hawk with a turboprop dropped in, and the second being &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,984,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-europe","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193813"}],"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=193813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}