{"id":16850,"date":"2020-10-14T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/14\/the-battle-of-palmdale-ww2-drone-hellcat-vs-f-89-scorpion-jet-interceptors\/"},"modified":"2021-10-04T07:08:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T12:08:39","slug":"the-battle-of-palmdale-ww2-drone-hellcat-vs-f-89-scorpion-jet-interceptors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/14\/the-battle-of-palmdale-ww2-drone-hellcat-vs-f-89-scorpion-jet-interceptors\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battle of Palmdale &#8211; WW2 Drone Hellcat vs F-89 Scorpion Jet Interceptors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CsbHgVrY9os?autoplay=1&amp;controls=1\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The Battle of Palmdale is one of those historic events that could easily spawn clickbait titles:<br \/>\nUS Navy vs US Air Force<br \/>\nDrone vs Manned Fighter<br \/>\nRunaway WW2 fighter vs Rocket-armed Jet Interceptor<\/p>\n<p>None of these would be a lie! 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On 16th August, 1956 a US Navy Grumman F6F-5K Hellcat a target drone went rouge&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/14\/the-battle-of-palmdale-ww2-drone-hellcat-vs-f-89-scorpion-jet-interceptors\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Battle of Palmdale &#8211; WW2 Drone Hellcat vs F-89 Scorpion Jet Interceptors<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16852,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16850\/revisions\/16852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}