{"id":1416,"date":"2017-06-26T23:01:33","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T23:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/26\/the-s-3-viking-retired-way-too-early\/"},"modified":"2017-06-26T23:01:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T23:01:33","slug":"the-s-3-viking-retired-way-too-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/26\/the-s-3-viking-retired-way-too-early\/","title":{"rendered":"The S-3 Viking Retired Way Too Early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/warisboring.com\/the-s-3-viking-retired-way-too-early\/'>The S-3 Viking Retired Way Too Early<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>&ldquo;Eight years ago the U.S. Navy retired: A) Its only dedicated carrier-based tanker. B) Its last dedicated carrier-based anti-submarine airplane. C) A carrier-based plane with more than twice the range of its current jets. D) All of the above. With a maximum speed of only 500 miles per hour\u2014many airli&hellip; &rdquo; &ndash; My Comments : Definitely agree.  Way back when I first started working at Pax River in the late &lsquo;90s, I got to know this bird pretty well, working on several very interesting projects on the Hoover.    I especially miss hearing it coming in for landings over our rental house on the water with its distinctive &ldquo;whoop, whoop!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The S-3 Viking Retired Way Too Early &ldquo;Eight years ago the U.S. Navy retired: A) Its only dedicated carrier-based tanker. B) Its last dedicated carrier-based anti-submarine airplane. C) A carrier-based plane with more than twice the range of its current jets. D) All of the above. With a maximum speed of only 500 miles per &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/26\/the-s-3-viking-retired-way-too-early\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The S-3 Viking Retired Way Too Early&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fbshare","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","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=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}