{"id":195381,"date":"2008-07-13T06:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T11:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/13\/pratt-whitneys-geared-turbofan-cleared-for-flight-testing\/"},"modified":"2008-07-13T06:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T11:21:00","slug":"pratt-whitneys-geared-turbofan-cleared-for-flight-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/13\/pratt-whitneys-geared-turbofan-cleared-for-flight-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Pratt Whitney&#8217;s Geared Turbofan Cleared for Flight Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ground test program is largely complete, so P&amp;W will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/07\/09\/225198\/pratt-whitneys-gtf-cleared-for-flight-testing.html\">be flying the engine shortly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate, the Pratt and Whitney sales team came up with the stupidest promotional film I&#8217;ve ever seen for an aviation product, which truth be told, says a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">lot<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"left: 0px ! important; top: 0px ! important;\" title=\"Click here to block this object with Adblock Plus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YE17vbjv9mk&amp;hl=en\"><\/a><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YE17vbjv9mk&amp;hl=en\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YE17vbjv9mk&amp;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ground test program is largely complete, so P&amp;W will be flying the engine shortly. To celebrate, the Pratt and Whitney sales team came up with the stupidest promotional film I&#8217;ve ever seen for an aviation product, which truth be told, says a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,982,1025,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-stupid","category-technology","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195381"}],"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=195381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}