
ST. LOUIS—Boeing [BA] as early as this week is slated to begin taxi tests of its first T-7A trainer aircraft that is in the engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase of the program and will be followed in mid-June with the start of Air Force flight testing, company officials said last week during a media tour of Boeing's defense work here. Boeing test pilots will fly the first EMD T-7A aircraft, called Advanced Pilot Trainer 2, for the Acceptance Test…