{"id":4288,"date":"2010-03-18T00:20:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T08:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=4288"},"modified":"2010-03-18T22:30:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T06:30:23","slug":"f-35b-hovers-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/18\/f-35b-hovers-for-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"F-35B Hovers for First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Update<\/span><\/strong>: The F-35B has now accomplished the significant <a href=\"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/2010\/03\/18\/marines-land-f-35-jet-vertically\/\">milestone of a vertical landing<\/a>. Video from some of the testing can be <a href=\"http:\/\/multivu.prnewswire.com\/player\/42215-lockheed-martin-f-35\/\">seen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A news article at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/2010\/03\/defense_F35B_hovers_031710\/\">Marine Times<\/a> notes that the F-35B, the Marine Corps variant intended to replace the STOVL Harrier, has hovered in flight for the first time.\u00a0 Flight test programs are built on gradual advances, and as a result the JSF did not land from a hover, though it did a slow speed landing at 70 knots (probably about half the speed of a normal landing).<\/p>\n<p>Like many large military acquisition programs, the F-35 test program has come under increasing criticism for delays and potential cost increases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: The F-35B has now accomplished the significant milestone of a vertical landing. Video from some of the testing can be seen here. A news article at the Marine Times notes that the F-35B, the Marine Corps variant intended to replace the STOVL Harrier, has hovered in flight for the first time.\u00a0 Flight test programs are built on gradual advances, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13,293,292,294,149],"class_list":["post-4288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-f-35b","tag-hover","tag-jsf","tag-marines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288","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=4288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}