trainer

Hürkuş Turboprop Trainer represents a significant leap forward for Turkey’s aerospace industry, thought it deserved a thread on its own instead of being lobbed inside Hurjet and Kaan threads. The Hürkuş program traces its roots back to the early 2000s when Turkey set out to design a fully...

https://mainichi.jp/articles/20240323/k00/00m/010/164000c It just came out that Japan wont be adopting either the M-346 or T-7A for it's next generation trainer, but will be jointly developing a new trainer with the US. There isn't much info on the program right now such as what companies are...

View: https://twitter.com/HALHQBLR/status/1479037903330164738/ Trainers are often functional not beautiful but this was hit with the ugly stick.

Over on another thread (cargo gliders) we got distracted by discussing military training gliders. This new thread focuses on 2 or 3 seat gliders specifically built for training military glider pilots, especially those who flew assault gliders into WW2 battles. So far, we have only found two...

One of the things that always puzzled me in the 70s was how the West German Air Force replaced its NATO light fighter bomber competition winning Fiat G91 with the Dornier Dassault Breguet Alpha Jet. The Germans had the money to buy a raft of different planes for this role ranging from Jaguars...

A British start-up company, Aeralis, is trying to secure £1 mil via crowdfunding to design a concept fuselage demonstrator for a “modular” family of military jet trainers in time for September’s DSEI defence show. They are billing this as the first all-British military aircraft since the Hawk...

Turkish TAI has just showed concept drawing of HURJET advanced trainer/light attack plane. This aircraft being developed with American SNC; which is also eleminated from USAF T-X contest

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2011/09/photos-fighter-bomber-trainer.html http://defensetech.org/2011/09/19/dont-hold-your-breath-for-t-x/

I found this snippet of information on Wikepedia: "Beechcraft began designing the Model 25 early in 1940 in response to the requirement of the then-named United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) for a small twin-engined aircraft suitable for use in training student pilots in the handling of...

Does the length of the F-5 or T-38 include the pitot-static tube on the front or not? KJ Lesnick

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1964, BA P.45 project. Supersonic Trainer, Strike and Fighter variants were contemplated, and with either 2 x RB.172 (early "Adour") engines or 1x RB.168 Spey already in production, plus various ex-TSR.2 avionic items, it was overall quite possible. With hindsight, however, ex BAe Warton...

Estimated specs from Flight International, 7 October 1978 Length: 41ft Span: 33ft Wing gross area: 240 sq ft Empty Weight: 8,800lb Internal Fuel weight: 3,300lb Clean takeoff weight: 12,500lb Maximum payload: 6,600lb Max takeoff weight: 19,000lb Max wing loading: 79lb/sq ft Powerplant: 1 x...