{"id":16004,"date":"2012-02-13T00:54:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T03:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=16004"},"modified":"2012-02-13T00:54:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T03:54:58","slug":"usaf-fighter-plane-reaches-significant-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/13\/usaf-fighter-plane-reaches-significant-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"USAF Fighter Plane Reaches Significant Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>F-15E <em>Strike Eagle <\/em>#89-0487 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dodlive.mil\/index.php\/2012\/01\/air-force-fighter-plane-reaches-milestone\/\">recently achieved 10,000 flight hours<\/a>, making it the first F-15 of\u00a0<em>any<\/em> type to log that many hours.<\/p>\n<p>It an interesting bit of trivia, 487 is the same F-15E that logged the only <em>Strike Eagle<\/em> air-to-air kill in Operation <em>Desert Storm <\/em>when it dropped a bomb on an airborne Iraqi helicopter. It also scored an air-to-air kill on a <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/27\/us-fighter-shoots-down-friendly\/\">rogue Reaper in Afghanistan<\/a>, fulfilling every fighter pilot&#8217;s dream&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F-15E Strike Eagle #89-0487 recently achieved 10,000 flight hours, making it the first F-15 of\u00a0any type to log that many hours. It an interesting bit of trivia, 487 is the same F-15E that logged the only Strike Eagle air-to-air kill in Operation Desert Storm when it dropped a bomb on an airborne Iraqi helicopter. It also scored an air-to-air kill [&#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":[58,13,535,52,2,95,53],"class_list":["post-16004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-afghanistan","tag-aircraft","tag-f-15e","tag-iraq","tag-military","tag-reaper","tag-uav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16004","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=16004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}