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Two Discovery Air Defence Services pilots who fly the Alpha Jet recently achieved more than 3,000 hours flying the advanced jet trainer.
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Outgoing U.S. Air Force chief of staff, Gen. Mark Welsh, has change tune on the subject of restarting the Lockheed Martin F-22 production line.
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The National Transportation Safety Board has published its investigation into the crash of a BAE Systems Hawk Mk 67 (former RoKAF T59) at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma on Mar. 11, 2015. The aircraft hit a stationary vehicle and killed a Marine inside it.
Photo by Randy Hoeft/Yuma Sun
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General Electric’s F414-GE-400 after-burning engine has been selected by South Korea to power its next fighter – the KF-X.
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Source: KAI
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Hong Kong’s Apple Daily reported that a deputy director with Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) has gone missing recently and the paper said Guo Enming has been implicated for spying.
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