#t-45 goshawk

[usafphantom2]

Operation Goshawk finally completed after the last 8 hours designing this and another aircraft. For my #Texas friends who live in, near, and outside NAS Kingsville #WarbirdWeekend This was the plane that was the successor to the T-2 Buckeye.

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[nocternalrandomness]

VX-23 “Salty Dogs” Airborne Command Formation  over NAS Patuxent River, MD

[thestonecuttersguild]

My favorite chubby jet. Oshkosh 2019.

[nicholassabalos]

Look….no steam….

ATLANTIC OCEAN (January 17, 2020) -- A T-45 Goshawk, assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23, conducts flight operations aboard brand-new United States Navy supercarrier USS Gerald R. Ford's (CVN 78) flight deck....in this minute-long video demonstration.

The aircraft carrier -- the lead ship of the Ford-class of aircraft carriers -- is currently conducting Aircraft Compatibility Testing to further test its Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch Systems (EMALS) and Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG). 

Both systems are at the core of what makes a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier a uniquely powerful instrument of foreign diplomacy, or, of course, warfare, when circumstances dictate.

Accordingly, note the absence of steam escaping the catapult system as the aircraft is launched. Here, an F/A-18F Super Hornet roars skyward....riding an electromagnetic rail.

The era of the steam catapult on American aircraft carriers is coming to an eventual end. This is a new generation of catapult launching and arresting gear systems....and USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) is tasked with working out the almost unavoidable kinks (and there have been plenty) in such a complex new system of systems....and ensuring their sustainability and reliability in a broad spectrum of training and wartime conditions.

An F/A-18F Super Hornet lands aboard USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78). Note the tailhook reaching to snag the arresting gear on the flight deck.  The Advanced Arresting Gear is a modular, integrated system consisting of energy absorbers, power conditioning equipment and digital controls.

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>>Video: Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Matthew R. Rice, USN 

The traditional steam catapult aboard generations of American aircraft carriers will eventually fade into history....

[usafphantom2]

16 April 1988. First flight of the T-45 Goshawk, modified version of the BAE Hawk, land-based training jet aircraft. Used by the United States Navy as an aircraft carrier-capable trainer. Powered by a F405-RR-400L engine.

@ron_eisele via X

[usafphantom2]

T-45C GOSHAWKS near NAS Pensacola (lt. g. booth)

@kadonkey via X

[usafphantom2]

T-45A Goshawk

@refueled via X

[usafphantom2]

Go Fetch!

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