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The T-X program is a United States Air Force development and acquisition program for a new two-seat jet trainer to replace the Northrop T-38 Talon. On 27 September 2018, the US Air Force selected the Boeing/Saab T-X entry to become its trainer aircraft. [1] The new aircraft was given the designation and name "T-7 Red Hawk" in September 2019. [2]
The Boeing–Saab T-7 Red Hawk, [2] initially known as the Boeing T-X (later Boeing–Saab T-X), [3] [4] is an American–Swedish transonic advanced jet trainer produced by Boeing with Saab. In September 2018, the United States Air Force (USAF) selected it for the T-X program to replace the Northrop T-38 Talon as the service's advanced jet trainer.
The first, the Bell X-1, became well known in 1947 after it became the first aircraft to break the sound barrier in level flight. [7] Later X-planes supported important research in a multitude of aerodynamic and technical fields, but only the North American X-15 rocket plane of the early 1960s achieved comparable fame to that of the X-1.
[29] 60 FA-50 aircraft are to be produced for the ROKAF from 2013 to 2016. [30] KAI received a ₩1.1 trillion (equivalent to ₩1.16 trillion or US$1.02 billion in 2017) [31] order for the FA-50 in May 2013. [32] In December 2015, KAI revealed the KAI-LM T-50 T-X upgrade intended to compete in the U.S. T-X program.
The North American Aviation T-6 Texan is an American single-engined advanced trainer aircraft used to train pilots of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), United States Air Force (USAF), United States Navy, Royal Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force and other air forces of the British Commonwealth during World War II and into the 1970s.
The last two aircraft were retired on July 10, 2021. [37] Germany German Air Force – 47 T-37Bs now retired, superseded by the T-6 Texan II Greece Hellenic Air Force – 32 aircraft, including 8 T-37Bs and 24 T-37Cs. Jordan Royal Jordanian Air Force – 15 aircraft, apparently ex-USAF T-37Bs. Khmer Republic Khmer Air Force – 24 T-37Bs. [38 ...
On March 1, a FedEx aircraft caught fire just moments after it took off from the ground. The Boeing 767-300 had just left Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, according to flight ...
The company plans to build six to eight aircraft in 2019 and 24 during 2020, at its plant at South Texas Regional Airport in Hondo, Texas. The plant was officially opened in February 2019 and employs many ex-U.S. military aircraft maintenance personal to build the aircraft. Prices have not been announced, but sales are to start in July 2019.