{"id":23935,"date":"2011-01-11T16:22:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T16:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/chinese_stealth_fighter_makes_first_test_flight\/"},"modified":"2011-01-11T16:22:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T16:22:57","slug":"chinese_stealth_fighter_makes_first_test_flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23935","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Stealth Fighter Makes First Test Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Images and witness accounts posted online Tuesday appeared to show that China&#8217;s stealth fighter prototype had made its first test flight, even as Robert Gates, the U.S. Defense Secretary who has downplayed China&#8217;s stealth aircraft capability, was meeting Chinese civilian leaders in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>The J-20, which has been undergoing runway tests for the last two weeks or so, took off from an airstrip at the Chengdu Aircraft Design Institute just before 1 p.m. local time and flew for about 20 minutes, according to several witness accounts posted by Chinese bloggers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704428004576075042571461586.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Images and witness accounts posted online Tuesday appeared to show that China&#8217;s stealth fighter prototype had made its first test flight, even as Robert Gates, the U.S. Defense Secretary who has downplayed China&#8217;s stealth aircraft capability, was meeting Chinese civilian<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23935\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,201,502,143,144,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-china","category-defense-national-security-military","category-foreign-relations","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}