Boeing has offered a sneak peak into its T-X trainer design, ahead of unveiling the aircraft officially next month. The clean sheet de...
Boeing has offered a sneak peak into its T-X trainer design, ahead of unveiling the aircraft officially next month.
The clean sheet design developed partnering with Swedish Saab, features shoulder mounted anhedral wings and tail plane with side mounted engine air intakes having splitter plate.
The artistic videos released shows the wing planforms are similar to that of the Northrop Grumman T-38 Talon which it is intended to replace.
Boeing plans to unveil the aircraft on September 13 from its St. Louis facility in Missouri.
Boeing will be the last of the four T-X trainer competitors to unveil its design, after the Northrop Grumman's T-X design was unofficially revealed during taxi trails from Mojave on Aug 19.
The trainers are being developed for U.S. Air Force T-X advanced pilot trainer requirement, to train pilots for the advanced fifth generation fighters like the F-35 and F-22 Raptor.
The T-X trainer will replace around 500 T-38 Talons currently operational, which entered service in 1961.
Boeing and Northrop Grumman is offering clean sheet designs, while Lockheed Martin is offering a modified T-50I trainer which it developed with South Korean KAI, and Raytheon has teamed with Italian Leornado to offer latters M-346 as the T-100.
The clean sheet design developed partnering with Swedish Saab, features shoulder mounted anhedral wings and tail plane with side mounted engine air intakes having splitter plate.
The artistic videos released shows the wing planforms are similar to that of the Northrop Grumman T-38 Talon which it is intended to replace.
Boeing plans to unveil the aircraft on September 13 from its St. Louis facility in Missouri.
Boeing will be the last of the four T-X trainer competitors to unveil its design, after the Northrop Grumman's T-X design was unofficially revealed during taxi trails from Mojave on Aug 19.
The trainers are being developed for U.S. Air Force T-X advanced pilot trainer requirement, to train pilots for the advanced fifth generation fighters like the F-35 and F-22 Raptor.
The T-X trainer will replace around 500 T-38 Talons currently operational, which entered service in 1961.
Boeing and Northrop Grumman is offering clean sheet designs, while Lockheed Martin is offering a modified T-50I trainer which it developed with South Korean KAI, and Raytheon has teamed with Italian Leornado to offer latters M-346 as the T-100.
