{"id":5478,"date":"2010-05-20T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=5478"},"modified":"2011-03-23T23:38:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T04:38:31","slug":"navy-begins-training-in-t-6b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/20\/navy-begins-training-in-t-6b\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy Begins Training in T-6B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent Navy news release notes the beginning of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navy.mil\/search\/display.asp?story_id=53478\">&#8220;naval aviator&#8221; (ie, pilot) training in its new T-6B<\/a>.\u00a0 The Navy has had the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/aircraft.htm#T-6\">T-6A<\/a> for some time, but only recently acquired the upgraded version.<\/p>\n<p>The T-6 <em>Texan II<\/em> program was intended to be a joint effort between the Navy and Air Force to develop a common pilot training aircraft.\u00a0 In fact, the development program was even entitled the Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (JPATS).<\/p>\n<p>After receiving 47 T-6As, however, it appears the Navy has decided to obtain the rest of its fleet as T-6Bs, which have flat screen displays, advanced avionics, a HUD, and advanced controls.\u00a0 It will ultimately fly over 300 T-6 airframes.\u00a0 The Air Force, which has no current plans to acquire the T-6B, will have approximately 450 T-6As.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent Navy news release notes the beginning of &#8220;naval aviator&#8221; (ie, pilot) training in its new T-6B.\u00a0 The Navy has had the T-6A for some time, but only recently acquired the upgraded version. The T-6 Texan II program was intended to be a joint effort between the Navy and Air Force to develop a common pilot training aircraft.\u00a0 In [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13,2,36,32,242],"class_list":["post-5478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-pilot-training","tag-t-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}