{"id":4153,"date":"2016-01-01T17:33:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T17:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=4153"},"modified":"2016-01-01T17:33:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T17:33:53","slug":"flying-new-fighter-jets-like-driving-ferrari-air-force-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=4153","title":{"rendered":"Flying new fighter jets \u2018like driving Ferrari\u2019 \u2013 Air Force pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">CLARK AIR BASE<\/span><\/strong>\u2014\u201cIt\u2019s like driving a Ferrari.\u201d This was how Lt. Col. Rolando Pena III, one of the first three Philippine Air Force pilots trained to fly FA-50 fighter jets, described how it was like to fly their newest asset.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The planes will undergo acceptance and test flights before being commissioned to the Air Force. Training for the three Filipino pilots took about six and a half months in Korea.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very significant because it adds up to the capability \u2026 we have to contend with the subsonic aircraft \u2026 now that we have a supersonic aircraft, our reaction time will be faster and we are more capable,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Another project is in the pipeline for the weapons of the new fighter jets, Pena said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLARK AIR BASE\u2014\u201cIt\u2019s like driving a Ferrari.\u201d This was how Lt. Col. Rolando Pena III, one of the first three Philippine Air Force pilots trained to fly FA-50 fighter jets, described how it was like to fly their newest asset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}