{"id":70206,"date":"2023-12-19T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=70206"},"modified":"2023-12-20T14:18:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T14:18:36","slug":"red-hawk-readies-for-climate-chamber-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=70206","title":{"rendered":"Red Hawk readies for climate chamber testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p><strong class=\"article-detail-dateline\">EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AFNS) &#8212; \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>The Air Force\u2019s new bird of prey, the <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/1960964\/air-force-announces-newest-red-tail-t-7a-red-hawk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span>T-7 Red Hawk<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong><span>, arrived at Eglin <\/span>Air Force Base Dec. 15 to begin a series of climate testing at Eglin AFB\u2019s McKinley Climatic Lab.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--media-inline--><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/><span>The purpose of the testing is to verify the T-7A\u2019s system functionality while operating in extreme environmental conditions. Among others, those conditions consist of minus 25 degrees Fahrenheit and up to 110 degrees sustained temperatures. The climatic chamber testing will evaluate the aircraft system\u2019s performance including propulsion, hydraulic, fuel, electrical, secondary power, environmental control and overall operations.<\/span>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>\u201cThe Red Hawk must withstand a range of environments from sitting on the ground in the Texas heat to flying at altitude,\u201d said Dr. Troy C. Hoeger, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center\u2019s T-7A chief developmental tester. \u201cThe climatic lab helps us do this in a deliberate and methodical way and will give us confidence that our new aircraft meets requirements.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--media-inline--><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/><span>The relatively new T-7A <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/3532605\/air-force-accepts-first-t-7-red-hawk-more-testing\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span>only arrived at Edwards AFB<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong><span>, California for testing in November.\u00a0 It is set to be the replacement aircraft to T-38C fleet. The T-7A will drastically improve training for the next generation of fighter and bomber pilots and will better prepare student pilots to advance into fourth and fifth<\/span>-generation fighter and bomber aircraft. With advanced mission systems, a glass touchscreen cockpit, stadium seating and embedded training capability the T-7A Redhawk will make a fundamental difference in future pilot training, according to Hoeger.\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>&#8220;The Red Hawk now joins many other Air Force aircraft tested at McKinley, from World War II to today\u2019s 21st century planes, to ensure they will operate in real world conditions.\u201d Hoeger<\/span> said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"ast-split ntext breakout \">\n<div class=\"item\">\n<div class=\"body\">\n<section class=\"ast-brandedhr\">\n<div class=\"ast-brandedhr-line\">\n<p>                <title>U.S. Air Force Logo<\/title><\/p><\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AFNS) &#8212; \u00a0 The Air Force\u2019s new bird of prey, the T-7 Red Hawk, arrived at Eglin Air Force Base Dec. 15 to begin a series of climate testing at Eglin AFB\u2019s McKinley Climatic Lab.\u00a0 \u00a0The purpose of the testing is to verify the T-7A\u2019s system functionality while operating in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":70208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70209,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70206\/revisions\/70209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}