{"id":194383,"date":"2008-09-27T05:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-27T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/27\/f-35b-opens-doors-in-flight\/"},"modified":"2008-09-27T05:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-27T10:15:00","slug":"f-35b-opens-doors-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/27\/f-35b-opens-doors-in-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"F-35B Opens Doors in Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img523.imageshack.us\/img523\/1885\/6d05f6df4bf04948aa3e77aur0.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"300\" \/>So, they&#8217;ve <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%3A972598dc-0e41-4865-975e-fcb3f7c06c34\">finally gotten the doos open of the vertical lift system open in flight<\/a>, hopefully this means a full STOVL flight in the next few weeks, though these wheels seem to be grinding <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">awfully<\/span> slowly.<\/p>\n<p>To my mind, it is the F-35B, with it&#8217;s STOVL capabilities, that is really the only variant that brings anything particularly necessary to the table.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clear that for a number of reasons, the Harriers in service really do need to be replaced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, they&#8217;ve finally gotten the doos open of the vertical lift system open in flight, hopefully this means a full STOVL flight in the next few weeks, though these wheels seem to be grinding awfully slowly. To my mind, it is the F-35B, with it&#8217;s STOVL capabilities, that is really the only variant that brings &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194383"}],"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=194383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}