{"id":51653,"date":"2015-02-27T05:29:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T11:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51653"},"modified":"2015-02-27T05:30:40","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T11:30:40","slug":"51653","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51653","title":{"rendered":"From The Boneyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com\/the-ghost-rider-b-52-rises-from-the-grave-to-ride-aga-1686588702\">restoring an airplane <\/a>that was built in the 1950&#8217;s and parked in the desert for a decade . . . because we don&#8217;t have enough flyable airplanes to defend the nation without it.<\/p>\n<p>What.  The.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> look at the bright side \u2013 and there are some bright sides. A government program \u2013 &#8220;The Boneyard&#8221; at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona \u2013 worked as designed; an aircraft in long-term storage is actually brought back from reserve.  And it cost far, far less to do it then it would have to build a new airplane\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 even if the American defense industry were capable of building another aircraft like it. Which it&#8217;s not, without going through the Pentagon&#8217;s long, costly and disgracefully wasteful procurement process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: We&#8217;re restoring an airplane that was built in the 1950&#8217;s and parked in the desert for a decade . . . because we don&#8217;t have enough flyable airplanes to defend the nation without it. What. The. Joe Doakes look at the bright side \u2013 and there are some bright [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51655,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51653\/revisions\/51655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}