Aviation News
The United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Sean J. Stackley , wrote to the British Navy to assure them that the cost of converting the second aircraft carrier with catapults and arrestor wires will cost less than the £2 billion quoted by officials.
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The U.S. has assured Brazil’s Embraer that it will reopen bidding for 20 light support planes, Brazilian Industry and Trade Minister Fernando Pimentel told journalists.
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An American official has warned that North Korea’s rocket launch next month would be aimed south for the first time and the missile will land in an area between Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines.
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VMFA(AW)-533 is the winner of the Robert M. Hanson award for the best fighter attack squadron in the U.S. Marine Corps for 2011.
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Advertisments have been put up in Australian to recruit fighter pilot instructors for the United Arab Emirates Air Force.
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