{"id":69760,"date":"2024-06-21T03:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/hunchback-why-soviet-ilyushin-il-20-1948-program-failed\/"},"modified":"2024-06-21T03:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T17:00:12","slug":"the-hunchback-of-ground-attack-why-the-soviet-ilyushin-il-20-1948-program-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=69760","title":{"rendered":"The Hunchback Of Ground Attack: Why The Soviet Ilyushin Il-20 1948 Program Failed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            One weird aircraft article deserves another&#8230;and another&#8230;and another&#8230;and yet one more, for good measure. In recent weeks, we at Simple Flying have either published or are getting ready to publish multiple articles on weird-looking military aircraft, from the Top 5 List linked below to the<a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/what-makes-v-22-osprey-unique-among-us-military-aircraft\/\"> V-22 Osprey <\/a>to the Convair XFY Pogo to the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/preview\/2028182\/\">Short Seamew<\/a> (still pending publication as I write these words).    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western aircraft designers certainly didn&#8217;t have a monopoly on weird-looking aircraft. The Il-20 is living proof of this.<\/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":[396,8977,408,1006,412,1175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-cold-war","category-history","category-ilyushin","category-military","category-soviet-planes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69760","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=69760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69761,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69760\/revisions\/69761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}