{"id":5946,"date":"2010-07-10T03:55:30","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T08:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=5946"},"modified":"2010-07-10T03:55:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T08:55:30","slug":"a-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5946","title":{"rendered":"A-12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5581881\/the-first-flight-of-the-cias-own-secret-blackbird\">The Secret Film of the CIA Supersonic Spy Plane&#8217;s First Flight<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After Lockheed Aircraft completed &#8220;antiradar studies, aerodynamic structural tests, and engineering designs,&#8221; the CIA gave the green light to produce 12 aircraft on January 30th, 1960. It was called the A-11 at the time. Lockheed engineer Clarence L. Johnson was the main designer, who was responsible for the U-2. Despite Johnson&#8217;s experience, many were skeptical at first and, after months of drawings and wind-tunnel model testing, they were not convinced this beast could fly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secret Film of the CIA Supersonic Spy Plane&#8217;s First Flight After Lockheed Aircraft completed &#8220;antiradar studies, aerodynamic structural tests, and engineering designs,&#8221; the CIA gave the green light to produce 12 aircraft on January 30th, 1960. It was called &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5946\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,53,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-tech","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}