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July 1989
- A-10 Close Support
- Dyna-Soar – Also Ran in the Race for Space
- Navy Wings of Gold
Manuals & Photos
- T-45A NATOPS Flight Manual
- T-45A NATOPS Flight Manual Changes
- T-45AC Performance Charts
- T-45AC Pocket Checklist Changes
- T-45C Advanced NFO Strike Procedures
- T-45C NATOPS Flight Manual 2000
- T-45C NATOPS Flight Manual 2007
- T-45C Pilots Pocket Checklist Changes
- T-45 Weapons Strike
- T-45 Aerodynamics Workbook
- T-45 Carrier Qualification Flight Procedures
- T-45 Familiarization
- T-45 Out of Control Flight
- McDonnell-Douglas T-45 TS Brochure
- Over 90 T-45 Goshawk photos
McDonnell-Douglas T-45 Goshawk
General Characteristics
- Crew: 2
- Length: 39Â ft 4Â in (11.99Â m)
- Wingspan: 30Â ft 9.75Â in (9.3917Â m)
- Height: 13Â ft 6Â in (4.11Â m)
- Wing area: 190.1 sq ft (17.66 m2)
- Airfoil: root: Hawker 10.9%; tip: Hawker 9%
- Empty weight: 9,394Â lb (4,261Â kg)
- Gross weight: 12,750Â lb (5,783Â kg)
- Max takeoff weight: 13,500Â lb (6,123Â kg)
- Fuel capacity: 432 US gal (360 imp gal; 1,640 l) / 3,159 lb (1,433 kg) internal fuel (2,893 lb (1,312 kg) – early production aircraft), with provision for 2x 156 US gal (130 imp gal; 590 l) drop tanks underwing
- Powerplant: 1 × Rolls-Royce Turbomeca F405-RR-401 turbofan engine, 5,527 lbf (24.59 kN) thrust de-rated (nominal thrust 5,845 lbf (25,999.86 N))
Performance
- Maximum speed: 543Â kn (625Â mph, 1,006Â km/h) at 8,000Â ft (2,438Â m), M0.84 at 30,000Â ft (9,144Â m)
- Carrier launch speed: 121Â kn (139Â mph; 224Â km/h)
- Approach speed: 125Â kn (144Â mph; 232Â km/h)
- Never exceed speed: 575Â kn (662Â mph, 1,065Â km/h) / M1.04 design dive limit at 3,281Â m (10,764Â ft)
- Range: 700Â nmi (810Â mi, 1,300Â km)
- Ferry range: 700Â nmi (810Â mi, 1,300Â km)
- Service ceiling: 42,500Â ft (13,000Â m)
- g limits: +7.33 –3
- Rate of climb: 8,000Â ft/min (41Â m/s) at sea level
- Time to altitude: 30,000Â ft (9,144Â m) in 7 minutes 40 seconds
- Wing loading: 346.7 lb/sq ft (1,693 kg/m2)
- Thrust/weight: 0.41
- Take-off distance to 50Â ft (15Â m): 3,610Â ft (1,100Â m)
- Landing distance from 50Â ft (15Â m): 3,310Â ft (1,009Â m)
Armament
- Usually none: One hardpoint under each wing can be used to carry practice bomb racks (can carry up to 12 Mk-76 practice bombs), rocket pods, or fuel tanks. A centerline hardpoint can carry a cargo pod for crew baggage.
Avionics
- Smiths Industries, Ltd. AN/USN-2(V) Standard Attitude Heading and Reference System, later replaced by the BAE/Marconi AN/ASN-180 Navigation Guidance System
- Rockwell Collins AN/ARN-144 VHF Omnidirectional Radio Range / Instrument Landing System
- Honeywell AN/APN-194 Radar altimeter
- Northrop Grumman AN/ASN-166 Inertial Guidance Set [1] Incorporates a Northrop Grumman (formerly Litton) LN-100G ring laser gyroscope, a Rockwell Collins Global Positioning System, and a Kalman filter
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Communications Suite
- Rockwell Collins AN/ARC-182 UHF/VHF radio
- Honeywell AN/APX-100 identification friend or foe system
- T-45A
- Two-seat basic and advanced jet trainer for the US Navy and US Marine Corps
- T-45B
- Proposed land-based version which would have been basically a conventional Hawk furnished with a US Navy-spec cockpit and no carrier capability. The US Navy had wanted to procure the T-45B so that trainee pilots could benefit from an earlier training capability, but abandoned the idea during 1984 in favor of less-costly updates to the TA-4J and T-2C.
- T-45C
- Improved T-45A, outfitted with a glass cockpit, inertial navigation, and other improvements. All existing T-45As have been upgraded to the T-45C standard.
- T-45D
- Tentative designation for an envisioned upgrade of the T-45, potentially incorporating various manufacturing improvements and additional equipment, such as helmet-mounted displays.