{"id":195272,"date":"2008-07-19T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T18:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/19\/f136-engine-completes-stovl-testing\/"},"modified":"2008-07-19T13:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T18:37:00","slug":"f136-engine-completes-stovl-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/19\/f136-engine-completes-stovl-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"F136 engine completes STOVL testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This GE-Rolls Royce competitor to the Pratt &#038; Whitney F135 in the JSF has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/07\/12\/225275\/f136-engine-completes-stovl-testing.html\">completed a round of tests in STOVL mode<\/a>, which is generally considered the most demanding part of the engine envelope.<\/p>\n<p>My guess would be the GE\/RR want to get as far as possible as quickly as possible, because the Pentagon has repeatedly tried to kill the program, and it&#8217;s been Congress keeping it alive.<\/p>\n<p>I have mixed emotions on the F-136.  It&#8217;s clear that the F-100\/F110 competition was a success in the F-15 and F-16, lowering cost and getting increased performance, but the F-110 was a derivative of the F-101 developed for the B-1 bomber, and as such the start up costs were much smaller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This GE-Rolls Royce competitor to the Pratt &#038; Whitney F135 in the JSF has completed a round of tests in STOVL mode, which is generally considered the most demanding part of the engine envelope. My guess would be the GE\/RR want to get as far as possible as quickly as possible, because the Pentagon has &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195272"}],"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=195272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}