Byline: ANDREW GILLIGANTHE RAF has confirmed to the Evening Standard that it is cutting the numbers of officers it puts through basic fast jet training by almost half as it prepares for massive cuts which will see the scrapping of Jaguar and Tornado jets and a dramatic reduction in the ...
Formidable Shield will run until 26 May. It is considered as the largest exercise of its kind that NATO will run this year. Besides the RAF Lossiemouth based components, the Commander Task Group, Integrated Air and Missile Defence has embarked aboard ESPS Blas de Lezo, the Spanish Navy Ál...
Thirty former RAF fast jet pilots found to be training Chinese counterparts Former UK Royal Air Force (RAF) frontline combat pilots have been found to be training their counterparts from the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAA... G Jennings - 《Jane S Defence Weekly Ihs Jane S Defence...
Scandal has also consumed the Red Arrows, amid claims of bullying, misogyny and sexual harassment. In addition, chronic problems with military flying training have persisted, with learner pilots still waiting years in limbo to qualify. This is despite Defence Secretary Ben ...
1.0 Aircraft Technician (Avionics) Specialist Training: is delivered at DCAE Cosford, near Wolverhampton, which lasts approximately 5-months. This course is designed to give trainees a basic understanding of their role, which includes aircraft handling a
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Flight Lieutenant Nathan Shawyer, 27, the last pilot to qualify on Tornado said: "I wasn't born when the Tornado first entered service with the RAF. It was a privilege to fly on today's training sortie which also captured fantastic imagery of this iconic aircraft. It will be a sad day...
With no simulator or two-seat training version of the aircraft, Howe made his, and the squadron’s, first flight on June 14 1960. A few weeks later he was instructed to provide a four-aircraft formation for the annual Farnborough Air Show. Despite the inevitable early teething troubles with...
This Royal Airforce base is used to train the pilots in the Hawk T1 jet, for 19 SQn and 208 SQN. It also serves as a training base for the Sea King air sea rescue SQN. This is my first attemp at recreating the airport but as i have worked there for some time, i have tried to...
For the first time, military pilots flew into action as masters of their airplanes. The Gosport system of training was eventually adopted at training schools throughout the world, remaining the dominant method of civil and military flight instruction into the jet age....