{"id":406728,"date":"2026-04-16T11:30:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/?p=1430892"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:30:28","slug":"opinion-and-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=406728","title":{"rendered":"Opinion and Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"640\" height=\"541\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSI2NDAiIGhlaWdodD0iNTQxIj48cmVjdCB3aWR0aD0iMTAwJSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxMDAlIj48YW5pbWF0ZSBhdHRyaWJ1dGVOYW1lPSJmaWxsIiB2YWx1ZXM9InJnYmEoMTUzLDE1MywxNTMsMC41KTtyZ2JhKDE1MywxNTMsMTUzLDAuMSk7cmdiYSgxNTMsMTUzLDE1MywwLjUpIiBkdXI9IjJzIiByZXBlYXRDb3VudD0iaW5kZWZpbml0ZSIgLz48L3JlY3Q+PC9zdmc+\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image wp-image-1430968 wp-post-1430892\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" data-public-id=\"Australian Aviation\/P024_NGADRaptorSR_02_kt1dab\/P024_NGADRaptorSR_02_kt1dab.jpg\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-transformations=\"f_auto\" data-version=\"1775786188\" data-seo=\"1\" data-responsive=\"1\" data-size=\"640 541\" data-delivery=\"upload\" onload=\";window.CLDBind?CLDBind(this):null;\" data-cloudinary=\"lazy\" \/>In this section of the magazine, our contributors offer their thoughts and insights into industry issues that matter most to them. In this issue, Jake Nelson warns the aviation sector that high-speed rail may be more than a pipe dream, Steve Kuper argues that Australia needs America&#8217;s B-21 Raider stealth bomber, Rob Dougherty cautions against<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this section of the magazine, our contributors offer their thoughts and insights into industry issues that matter most to them. In this issue, Jake Nelson warns the aviation sector that high-speed rail may be more than a pipe dream, Steve Kuper argu&#8230;<\/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":[20091,273,312,4773,477,19001],"tags":[472],"class_list":["post-406728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20091","category-australia","category-aviation","category-premium-article","category-premium-content","category-premium-exclusive","tag-australian"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406728","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=406728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406729,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406728\/revisions\/406729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}