USAF Pilots To Finally Fly T-7s This Month, Boeing Says

A Boeing T-7A engineering and manufacturing development aircraft at the company’s St. Louis facility. 

Credit: Brian Everstine
ST. LOUIS—U.S. Air Force test pilots will begin flying the T-7A Red Hawk trainer this month as Boeing works through a series of changes to the aircraft’s egress system and flight control software that have delayed the program, the company says. Uniformed pilots were expected to start taxiing in the...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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