{"id":87090,"date":"2024-07-15T13:30:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T03:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/what-to-know-a-7-corsair-ii-us-cold-war-plane\/"},"modified":"2024-07-15T13:30:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T03:30:11","slug":"the-right-sluf-what-to-know-about-the-stubby-a-7-corsair-ii-us-cold-war-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=87090","title":{"rendered":"The Right SLUF: What To Know About The Stubby A-7 Corsair II US Cold War Plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    &#8220;Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,&#8221; as the proverb goes, or as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.socratic-method.com\/quote-meanings-interpretations\/kinky-friedman-beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beer-holder\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >Kinky Friedman<\/a> rephrased it, &#8220;Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.&#8221; Case in point: the Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV) Corsair II light-attack aircraft of the Cold War era. Its affectionate nickname was &#8220;SLUF,&#8221; which stood for &#8220;Short Little Ugly Fellow&#8221; in polite company but in reality stood for &#8220;Short Little Ugly F*ck*r&#8221; (analogous to how the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/what-are-multi-functional-capabilities-b-52-stratofortress\/\">B-52 Stratofortress<\/a> was nicknamed the &#8220;BUFF&#8221; as in &#8220;Big Ugly Fat Fellow\/F*ck*r&#8221;).    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;SLUF&#8221; stood for &#8220;Short Little Ugly Fellow&#8221; (in polite company). But the A-7 Corsair&#8217;s combat performance was a thing of beauty.<\/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":[396,2759,397,708,11503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aircraft-carrier","category-analysis","category-us-navy","category-vietnam-war"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87090","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=87090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87091,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87090\/revisions\/87091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}