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It isn’t very often that we get the opportunity to see military orange and white training aircraft in flight at an air show, however at the recent NAS Kingsville, Texas air show courtesy of Air Wing Two, we had that rare opportunity to see a flight demonstration of the T-45C Goshawk in a four jet formation.
Pilots from both Training Squadrons 21 and 22 demonstrated several maneuvers conducted during training.
The Goshawk is used by the Navy and Marine Corps to train student pilots in the intermediate and advanced portions of the strike pilot training program. Approximately 3,500 student aviators have received their Wings of Gold in the Goshawk.
The Goshawk is a two seat jet that is manufactured by Boeing with a Rolls-Royce engine. The T-45 is fully carrier capable and student pilots receive their first traps (carrier landings) in this aircraft. Since entering service in 1992, the T-45s have logged over 800,00 flight-hours and made over 50,000 arrested carrier landings.
Click on the attached link to see more photographs from the airshow:
This Memorial Day got me thinking about a recent visit to Naval Air Station Pensacola. I was up early on a Sunday morning, before the extreme heat of the day kicked in and decided to take one last drive around the base just before leaving to catch my flight back home. I had driven by Barrancas Cemetery several times on this visit. It’s hard to miss thousands of symetrical tombstones lined in perfect attention. I decided to stop by the cemetery and take a few moments to pay my respects.
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