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Issue 363: Fighter Fit
How the RAAF prepares its fighter pilots for the rigours of dog fighting
I haven’t put eyes on it in the flesh myself, but I have to agree with John Walton’s assessment in his Farnborough Airshow report this issue that seeing the erstwhile Bombardier C Series painted up in full Airbus house colours and redesignated the A220 is “a source of no little cognitive dissonance”.
But that was clearly the point. In taking on the C Series and adding it to its own product line as unequivocally an Airbus, the European planemaker has sent a clear signal that its full weight is behind the until now struggling narrowbody airliner program.
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