{"id":28994,"date":"2014-05-12T01:00:04","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T04:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=28994"},"modified":"2016-11-25T22:57:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T01:57:55","slug":"scorpion-jet-continues-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/12\/scorpion-jet-continues-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Scorpion Jet Continues Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Textron\/Cessna&#8217;s Scorpion &#8212; an industry produced military-jet hopeful <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/25\/cessna-floats-new-plane-for-irregular-warfare\/\">previously noted<\/a> &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansas.com\/2014\/04\/18\/3412085\/scorpion-military-jet-completes.html\">continues to progress<\/a> through its flight test, according to a local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scorpionjet.com\/textron-airlands-scorpion-isrstrike-aircraft-reaches-50-test-flight-hours-achieves-mach-0-72-air-speed\/\">press release<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Recent flights have been gathering data about the aircraft\u2019s performance at various speeds, altitudes and climb rates, and the responsiveness of its avionics, flight controls and landing systems, the <!--more-->company reports.<\/p>\n<p>So far, pilots have tested the plane at 30,000 feet and at a maximum airspeed of 495 mph true airspeed.<\/p>\n<p>The Scorpion marks one of the fastest developments of a U.S.-built tactical jet, Textron said. The project progressed from an initial design to first flight in less than 24 months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are no public buyers, but with a substantial representation of former defense officials associated with the company, it is likely evident where the Scorpion is intended to go.<\/p>\n<p>Also at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/scorpion-military-jet-completes-50-hours-of-flight-time-1.278953\">Stars and Stripes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Textron\/Cessna&#8217;s Scorpion &#8212; an industry produced military-jet hopeful previously noted &#8212; continues to progress through its flight test, according to a local press release: Recent flights have been gathering data about the aircraft\u2019s performance at various speeds, altitudes and climb rates, and the responsiveness of its avionics, flight controls and landing systems, the<\/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":[134,13,3005,4297,2,4295,4296],"class_list":["post-28994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-aircraft","tag-cessna","tag-f-whitten-peters","tag-military","tag-scorpion","tag-textron-airland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28994","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=28994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}