HÜRJET has "Entered A/B!" May it have a good path and good fortune, "May FOD not enter its engine!"

Since the proud day when our National Combat Aircraft KAAN made its first (and most difficult) flight, we have become "aviators" as a nation. The word KAAN has been on the lips of our young and old. I am sure there will be many parents who will name their children born this year Kaan.

KAAN is a very ambitious project; Turkey has succeeded. It lifted, flew and landed such an ambitious, mixed-complex technology-oriented platform without any accidents, and "initiated the flight test and evaluation phase" of the aircraft. This is an unimaginable achievement. Hopefully, its journey that started well will continue well.

Meanwhile, HÜRJET, our first national jet trainer and light attack aircraft, continues its flight test and evaluation phase "quietly and deeply" and has already completed its 43rd flight sortie (Source: TRT Haber).

In the latest tests of HÜRJET, calibration of the air data system and model verifications were carried out. For the execution of the high-speed tests, the landing gear of the aircraft was collected and the engine power was increased to Maximum A/B (Afterburner) level. 

Testing the engine at A/B is a very important phase. With the feedback obtained from these phases, the inputs, processes and outputs of the entire HÜRJET systems will be improved and developed much healthier and faster.

In order to describe the afterburner (A/B) mode of the jet fighter engines, the jet fighter community uses definitions, abbreviations, etc. in aviation professional jargon such as "going into A/B", "throwing into A/B", "plugging into A/B", "plugging into A/B", "the aircraft went into A/B".

As Turkish military aviation enters its golden age, we will not be surprised if we witness the phrase "I entered/entered/attempted A/B" being used for expressions such as "I accelerated and accelerated my work and processes", "I accelerated my car", etc.

FOD (Foreign Object Damage), on the other hand, is an abbreviation frequently used in the aviation industry to describe both the damage caused by foreign objects to airplanes and especially to the jet engines of airplanes, as well as the foreign objects themselves. 

For this reason, aviators' wish that "FOD should not get into the engine" in order to prevent any damage or an unsafe situation from happening to their jet airplanes is equivalent to the wish that "no stone should touch your foot" among the people. 

I anticipate that the expression "May FOD not get into your engine" will become widespread among the general public.

I think that many expressions, especially in military aviation jargon, such as "our aircraft is bleeding" (aircraft hydraulic fluid is red in color) for aircraft with hydraulic leakage, "our aircraft is bleeding!" for aircraft with fuel leakage, etc. will be included in the use of our people.

As our aviation develops, our love for aviation will be strengthened.

Our HÜRJET has "entered A/B" and accelerated, it will accelerate even more, may its path and fortune be clear, "may FOD not enter its engine".