Proposed Efa Programme Delays: The Eurofighter consortium has proposed delaying delivery of production EFA aircraft by two years to lessen pressures on the troubled programme. The delay proposal is part of a study. currently underway to determine significant cost reduction measures to reduce the aircraft’s programme cost, and would see production EFAs delivered during 2000,

Practicing to Die! Such is the term used by numerous air arms around the world to describe the somewhat dubious procedure of performing double asymmetric training exercises on live aircraft. A procedure which surprisingly is still being employed by the Royal Australian Air Force in view of the loss of a Boeing 707 practicing same

Register Review Twenty seven aircraft make up the new allocation section this month, indicating an upward swing in the aviation economy. Of the four helicopters listed, Aerospatiale A Star AWK comes from Japan where it was operated by Royal Koku at Tokyo Heliport. Interestingly, the aircraft was flying as an aAS350B Squirrel inJapan so it

50 Years Ago . . . July 1 – North Africa. Rommel assaults the new El Alamein. line. Kittyhawks of 3 and 450 Sqns escorting Bostons to Deir El Shein, fight a running battle with Me 109s. Sgt George O’Neil’s aircraft falls a mile out to sea. Bailing out, he jettisons his revolver, helmet, gloves