{"id":32291,"date":"2024-04-30T18:30:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T08:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/f-35-lightning-ii-australian-air-force\/"},"modified":"2024-04-30T18:30:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T08:30:12","slug":"the-f-35-lightning-ii-at-the-australian-air-force-how-its-performing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=32291","title":{"rendered":"The F-35 Lightning II At The Australian Air Force: How It&#8217;s Performing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            Simple Flying now continues with the second half of a two-part series that was inspired by the author&#8217;s attendance at an<a href=\"https:\/\/australiausa.org\/event\/anzac-day-2024\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" > ANZAC Day Commemorative Dawn Ceremony in Washington, DC<\/a> on April 25. I also had the honor and pleasure of meeting several officers of both the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/roulettes-australian-air-force-display-team-guide\/\">Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) <\/a>and Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) and got their perspectives on the aircraft in their countries&#8217; military fleets.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S.-owned F-35s are notorious for their reliability issues. Yet the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) F-35s are performing just fine, thanks.<\/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":[1258,396,273,595,748,8528,627,5684,8497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-aircraft","category-australia","category-aviation-news","category-f-35","category-f-a-18","category-lockheed-martin","category-p-8","category-poseidon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32291","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=32291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32294,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32291\/revisions\/32294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}