Boeing T-7A Completes Its First Inverted Flight Test

So they are building this airplane to be fully capable of inverted flight?

Owning six commercial airplane families and a business jet range, the company has tested its recent Red Hawk, Boeing T-7A Advanced Trainer in its first inverted flight.

The jet completed the test successfully by Boeing Test & Evaluation pilots Matt Giese and William Berryman through bumpy maneuvers in the air. Developed for the U.S. Air Force, the testing process of the Red Hawk was to check if the jet's fuel system was compatible with all angles.

Flying your head down

"What we do is roll the airplane upside down," implied Chief pilot of Boeing Tactical Aircraft, Dan Draeger. "We need to make sure that things like fuel, oil, and everything else feeds properly to the airplane during all maneuvers."

While the experienced pilots were performing acrobatics up in the air, test engineers on the ground in telemetry room watched for all the systems on T-7A and approved of the aircrew inverting swiftly.


Source: Boeing

MIflyer said:

So they are building this airplane to be fully capable of inverted flight?

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If it can't, its no good for a military fighter pilot trainer!

Then a lot of airplanes would lose out. The Thunderbirds aircraft had to be modified for sustained inverted flight.

Really???

Sustained inverted flight is only required for acro performances. The P-40 and P-51 and F-86F are limited to 10 sec for inverted flight or any negative G situation. F-86D was not allowed inverted flight or any negative G with the afterburner operating.

I see these take off on their test flights all the time. My office is just across the street from where they are maintained. I think they flew near my house the other da

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