The Air Force’s first T-7 Red Hawk trainer assigned to an operational unit landed at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph in Texas on Dec. 5, opening the door to the service’s new era of pilot training. A lot more work remains, however, before the T-7 is officially folded into day-to-day activities to train the next generation of Air Force pilots. The Boeing-made T-7 is the service’s first new jet trainer in decades, and the first designed to teach new pilots how to fly fifth-generation jets such as