{"id":13551,"date":"2011-10-05T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T06:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=13551"},"modified":"2011-10-04T23:18:33","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T04:18:33","slug":"f-35b-makes-first-vertical-landing-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/05\/f-35b-makes-first-vertical-landing-at-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"F-35B Makes First Vertical Landing at Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The US Marine Corps&#8217; STOVL variant of the Joint Strike Fighter, the F-35B <em>Lightning II<\/em>, has made its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/2011\/10\/marine-defense-f-35b-makes-first-vertical-landing-at-sea-100311w\/\">first vertical landing aboard the USS <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/2011\/10\/marine-defense-f-35b-makes-first-vertical-landing-at-sea-100311w\/\">Wasp<\/a> <\/em>while it was underway, flown by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navy.mil\/search\/display.asp?story_id=63065\">US Marine Corps Test Pilot LtCol Fred Schenk<\/a>.\u00a0 (The <em>Wasp <\/em>is a straight-deck amphibious assault ship, not an aircraft carrier.)\u00a0 Interestingly, they didn&#8217;t mention the subsequent takeoff, which would likely have also been a first.<\/p>\n<p>The DoD has posted a short video of the landing &#8212; which was likely a much longer event than shown &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/HPICS-RJAn8\">on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HPICS-RJAn8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Marine Corps&#8217; STOVL variant of the Joint Strike Fighter, the F-35B Lightning II, has made its first vertical landing aboard the USS Wasp while it was underway, flown by US Marine Corps Test Pilot LtCol Fred Schenk.\u00a0 (The Wasp is a straight-deck amphibious assault ship, not an aircraft carrier.)\u00a0 Interestingly, they didn&#8217;t mention the subsequent takeoff, which would [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[293,2291,777,149,2,642,2292,2293],"class_list":["post-13551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-f-35b","tag-joint-strike-fighter","tag-lightning","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-stovl","tag-uss-wasp","tag-vertical-landing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}