Inside T-7 Red Hawk Test Operations At Edwards AFB

T-7 Red Hawk Integrated Test Force director details testing progress that will enable a desperately needed production green light.

Jamie Hunter

Posted 18 Hours Ago

The U.S. Air Force’s new advanced jet trainer aircraft, the Boeing T-7A Red Hawk, is deeply engaged in an accelerating and expanding flight test program at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The USAF’s need for the Red Hawk is acute, with aged T-38 Talons bearing a heavy pilot training burden as Air Education And Training Command (AETC) struggles to meet pilot output targets.

The T-7 is designed to improve aircraft availability and it incorporates technology meant to accelerate training. “The T-7A is a generational change over the T-38 that’s going to open up a lot of options for AETC,” says Lt. Col. Jonathan “Gremlin” Aronoff, T-7A Integrated Test Force director.

A team of Air Force and Boeing pilots and engineers are working with the new trainer to generate sufficient data and confidence to endorse that the aircraft is ready for students and instructors to fly, and that the Red Hawk meets contractual requirements that would green-light Boeing to commence low-rate initial production.

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