{"id":22439,"date":"2024-03-26T02:45:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T16:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-navy-first-fighter-f-35-comparison\/"},"modified":"2024-03-26T02:45:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T16:45:12","slug":"then-now-how-does-the-us-navys-first-fighter-compare-with-the-f-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=22439","title":{"rendered":"Then &amp; Now: How Does The US Navy\u2019s First Fighter Compare With The F-35?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s been 100 years since the US Navy launched its first aircraft from its first aircraft carrier. A world war, the Cold War, and a breathtaking amount of development and progress have transformed carrier-based <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/category\/military-aviation\/\">military aircraft<\/a> beyond recognition. The US Navy&#39;s first carrier-based fighter aircraft was the little Vought VE-7 biplane (this was also the age when the Navy was experimenting with <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/curtiss-f9c-sparrowhawk-history\/\">flying airship carriers launching Curtiss F9C-2 Sparrowhawks<\/a>). Now, the Navy is retrofitting its carriers to operate the cutting-edge F-35C multirole strike fighter. Here is a throwback to how today&#39;s US carrier-based fighter aircraft compares with their original progenitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The naval aviation transformation over its 100-year history has been profound with modern fighters being unrecognisable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,2759,1341,748,408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aircraft-carrier","category-biplane","category-f-35","category-history"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22440,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22439\/revisions\/22440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}