{"id":221,"date":"2008-02-23T00:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-23T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/new-blog\/?p=221"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:11:24","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:11:24","slug":"the-northrop-loral-f-19-a-specter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/the-northrop-loral-f-19-a-specter.html","title":{"rendered":"The Northrop Loral F-19-A Specter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Northrop-Loral_F-19A_Specter\"><img style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 650px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/images\/thumb\/6\/6b\/Northrop-loral-f-19-advertisement-poster.jpg\/800px-Northrop-loral-f-19-advertisement-poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>You probably don&#8217;t know about this aircraft, because its origins and operations are so secret even the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">US Government<\/span> doesn&#8217;t know about it.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Northrop-Loral_F-19A_Specter\">F-19A SPECTRE<\/a> is one of the US&#8217; many Stealth fighter aircraft developed in the 1980s.   The thing is, these imaginative stealth planes weren&#8217;t developed by anybody in the aerospace industry.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft design above used for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantastic-plastic.com\/MONOGRAM%20F-19%20STEALTH%20PAGE.htm\">Monogram&#8217;s Stealth F-19A Reconnaissance Fighter 1\/72 scale model<\/a>.  Whoever designed it was nice enough to include, in various places, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:F-19a-specter-guide.jpg\">diagrams comparable to the usual aircraft graphics<\/a> seen in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janes.com\/\">Jane&#8217;s<\/a> guides, as seen here.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectorsquest.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/04\/the-stealth-that-never-was\/\">This version of the Stealth is my favorite<\/a>, based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:Loral-f-19.jpg\">a concept by Lora<\/a>l Aeroelectronics that appeared many places,  like the airplane book I scanned the poster&#8217;s background from, seen above.  <a href=\"http:\/\/modelingmadness.com\/reviews\/mod\/us\/leef19.htm\">Testor&#8217;s version<\/a> was first on the market and got the most publicity &#8212; including being shown to Congress with the politicians demanding why, if the program was so secret, would a model company be releasing designs to the public?  Little did they know, the stealth aircraft in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skunkworks.net\/\">Skunkworks<\/a> hangers looked nothing like any of the theoretical toy designs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/1164514753160272371-8370212241879920432?l=www.infomercantile.com\/blog\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You probably don&#8217;t know about this aircraft, because its origins and operations are so secret even the US Government doesn&#8217;t know about it. The F-19A SPECTRE is one of the US&#8217; many Stealth fighter aircraft developed in the 1980s. The thing is, these imaginative stealth planes weren&#8217;t developed by anybody in the aerospace industry. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[456,462,460,458,461,457,459],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1397,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/1397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}