{"id":7463,"date":"2010-10-12T00:30:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T06:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=7463"},"modified":"2010-10-10T19:46:28","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T01:46:28","slug":"navy-transitioning-to-t-6-trainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/12\/navy-transitioning-to-t-6-trainer\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy Transitioning to T-6 Trainer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/08\/t-37s-retired-sort-of\/\">already retired<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/aircraft.htm#T-37B\">T-37B <em>Tweet<\/em><\/a> and is flying the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/aircraft.htm#T-6\">T-6A <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/aircraft.htm#T-6\">Texan II<\/a> <\/em>as its primary introductory flight trainer.\u00a0 The T-6 was the result of a &#8220;joint&#8221; program between the Air Force and Navy.\u00a0 The Navy has been transitioning from its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/aircraft.htm#T-34\">T-34C <em>Turbomentor<\/em><\/a> to the Navy version of the trainer, the T-6B.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/2010\/09\/navy-texan-trainer-092710w\/\">article at the <em>Navy Times<\/em><\/a> notes the T-6 is a huge leap from the earlier T-34 &#8212; even sporting ejection seats.\u00a0 Distressed pilots in the T-34 had to manually jump over the side if they needed to exit the aircraft in flight, a la WWII.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force already retired the T-37B Tweet and is flying the T-6A Texan II as its primary introductory flight trainer.\u00a0 The T-6 was the result of a &#8220;joint&#8221; program between the Air Force and Navy.\u00a0 The Navy has been transitioning from its T-34C Turbomentor to the Navy version of the trainer, the T-6B. An article at the Navy Times [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[134,13,2,36,32,151,948,242],"class_list":["post-7463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-aircraft","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-pilot-training","tag-t-34c","tag-t-37","tag-t-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463","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=7463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}