{"id":17753,"date":"2012-05-15T00:30:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T03:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=17753"},"modified":"2012-05-14T23:10:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T02:10:12","slug":"air-force-to-choose-afghan-plane-without-flying-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/15\/air-force-to-choose-afghan-plane-without-flying-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force to Choose Afghan Plane without Flying It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News reports were aghast recently that the Air Force has decided to choose a Light Attack aircraft for delivery to the Afghan Air Force &#8212; which has undergone an <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/05\/air-force-cancels-light-attack-aircraft-contract\/\">arduous contract dispute<\/a> already &#8212;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/defense.aol.com\/2012\/05\/07\/super-tucano-supporters-in-shock-af-to-pick-tucano-or-at-6-with\/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000058\">without conducting a flyoff<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Air Force will choose a winner in its troubled Light Air Support competition without actually flying the two contending planes, the Embraer Super Tucano and the Hawker-Beechcraft AT-6&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The decision puts the Air Force acquisition process back in the spotlight, where it has only suffered in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News reports were aghast recently that the Air Force has decided to choose a Light Attack aircraft for delivery to the Afghan Air Force &#8212; which has undergone an arduous contract dispute already &#8212;\u00a0without conducting a flyoff. The Air Force will choose a winner in its troubled Light Air Support competition without actually flying the two contending planes, the Embraer [&#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":[134,13,498,2768,5285,2766,2,2765],"class_list":["post-17753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-aircraft","tag-at-6","tag-embraer","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-hawker-beechcraft","tag-military","tag-super-tucano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17753","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=17753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}