{"id":5953,"date":"2010-06-15T07:25:02","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T13:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=5953"},"modified":"2010-06-15T07:25:02","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T13:25:02","slug":"stovl-f-35b-goes-supersonic-but-not-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/15\/stovl-f-35b-goes-supersonic-but-not-first\/","title":{"rendered":"STOVL F-35B Goes Supersonic, but Not First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Military Times<\/em> recently pronounced that the F-35 became <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2010\/06\/dn_jsf_supersonic_061410\/\">&#8220;first US STOVL aircraft&#8221; to go supersonic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They were, of course, wrong.<\/p>\n<p>In 2001, Lockheed Martin&#8217;s ineptly designated X-35B &#8212; the prototype of the STOVL F-35 &#8212; not only achieved supersonic flight, but it did so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lockheedmartin.co.uk\/news\/55.html\">on the same sortie<\/a> that it achieved a short field take off and vertical landing.\u00a0 This was a first not only for a US aircraft, but a first in history.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airspacemag.com\/military-aviation\/Mission_X.html\">article by Marine Major Arthur Tomassetti<\/a>, the test pilot on one of the sorties, describes the event.\u00a0\u00a0(Interestingly, he notes that the sortie had to work around a memorial service at Edwards Air Force Base.\u00a0 Test pilot Major Aaron\u00a0&#8220;C-Dot&#8221; George and civilian flight photographer Judson Brohmer were killed just 3 days prior during a test sortie.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Military Times recently pronounced that the F-35 became &#8220;first US STOVL aircraft&#8221; to go supersonic. They were, of course, wrong. In 2001, Lockheed Martin&#8217;s ineptly designated X-35B &#8212; the prototype of the STOVL F-35 &#8212; not only achieved supersonic flight, but it did so on the same sortie that it achieved a short field take off and vertical landing.\u00a0 [&#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":[13,293,2,642,643,641],"class_list":["post-5953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-f-35b","tag-military","tag-stovl","tag-supersonic","tag-x-35"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953","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=5953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}