{"id":11688,"date":"2008-04-17T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/17\/stealth-fighters-final-flight-imminent\/"},"modified":"2008-04-17T12:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T12:23:00","slug":"stealth-fighters-final-flight-imminent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/17\/stealth-fighters-final-flight-imminent\/","title":{"rendered":"Stealth Fighter&#8217;s Final Flight Imminent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.driko.org\/Aviation\/Andrews2005\/slides\/IMG_0304.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/f117.jpg\" alt=\"f-117 Stealth Fighter - Andrews AFB 2005\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>CNN<\/i> reports that &ldquo;The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/US\/03\/11\/stealth.fighter.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Air Force decided to accelerate the retirement of the F-117s<\/a> to free up money to modernize the rest of the fleet. The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/F-117\" target=\"_blank\">F-117<\/a> is being replaced by the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/F-22\" target=\"_blank\">F-22 Raptor<\/a>, which also has stealth technology.&rdquo;  I guess I can understand their rationale, but I&rsquo;m surprised that this has happened so soon, especially considering how many aircraft types have been in service for much longer than the F-117.  Based on this news, I&rsquo;m wondering whether we&rsquo;ll even see any Stealth Fighters on the air show circuit this year&hellip; \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The last F-117s scheduled to fly will leave Holloman on April 21, stop in Palmdale, California, for another retirement ceremony, then arrive on April 22 at their final destination: Tonopah Test Range Airfield in Nevada, where the jet made its first flight in 1981.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/aviation\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">aviation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/history\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">history<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/military\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">military<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-4440156762299063769?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN reports that &ldquo;The Air Force decided to accelerate the retirement of the F-117s to free up money to modernize the rest of the fleet. The F-117 is being replaced by the F-22 Raptor, which also has stealth technology.&rdquo; I guess I can understand their rationale, but I&rsquo;m surprised that this has happened so soon, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/17\/stealth-fighters-final-flight-imminent\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stealth Fighter&#8217;s Final Flight Imminent&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-11688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}