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Boeing Wants to Scale Up T-7A Red Hawk Approach for Other Planes

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, June 16th, 2022

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Boeing Wants to Scale Up T-7A Red Hawk Approach for Other Planes

Boeing said in April that the first engineering and manufacturing development T-7A Red Hawk made its debut in Saint Louis (Boeing Photo)

SEATTLE--Boeing [BA] wants to scale up the digital engineering approach the company said it took with the U.S. Air Force T-7A Red Hawk trainer to other programs. Through simulation, the company would build the first few aircraft of a given type to work out design and production process kinks. "For everything we do physically, we want to have a digital twin of that where we can predict the performance of what's going to happen once we do it for real,"…

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