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 ...n charter airline Air
National plans to begin twice-
weekly services with its leased
Boeing 747 in May from New
York through Belfast
Aldergrove to Athens if
the respective governments
approve.
Air National announced its
plan early this month, just
hours before it was disclosed
that Aldergrove is to become
one of the six freeports to be
established in the UK.
Air National president
Mi...
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 ... update
programme in which early-
model CH-47s are being
upgraded to D-model stan
dard. Both Westland and
Boeing foresee other potential
military and civilian markets
for the upgraded Chinook.
Air National
is premature
BELFAST
Air National chairman Joe
Garrihy flew into Belfast last
week to announce that the
San Francisco-based charter
airline was to introduce New
York-Belfast-Athen...
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 ...0) 1705 814670, fax+44(0) 1705
874107. E-mail: rogerv@mcmail.com
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AAC Army Air Corps AAR air-to-air refuelling AB air
base AF air force AFB air force base AGL above
ground level ANG Air National Guard AP airport
BAe British Aerospace CFIT controlled flight into
terrain CNK cause not known FOD foreign object
damage IAI Israel Aircraft Industries JASDF
Japanese Air Self-Defence...
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 ... the US effort, the
Presidential report claims: "It is un
likely that particle-beam weapons
have reached a stage beyond feasibility
studies or possible exploratory de
velopment in any country."
Air National Guard
Corsairs visit UK
A DETACHMENT of 24 A-7D Cor
sair lis of the US Air National Guard
is on a 19-day visit to RAF Wittering.
The units' home bases are in Ohio,
Pennsylvania and ...
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 ...
Tattoo. Top, CAF CF-I04s breakaway over
the C-9A Nightingale. Right, French Navy
P-2 Neptune. Below, older enthusiasts were
catered for by the presence of the Lancaster
and a KC-97L of Wisconsin Air National Guard.
Bottom right, Lightning XR7I6 was one of
the RAF representative...
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 ...latus Britten-Norman Islander,
Defender; Panavia Tornado; British Aerospace Coastguarder; Goodyear Air
ship Europa; Marlboro' Aerobatics Team (2 Pitts S.l Specials); Me 108 (L.
Walton).
C-130A US Air National Guard, USAF Reserve C-130B Canadian Armed Forces
C-130D US Air National Guard C-130E Brazil, USAF Military Airlift Command
C-130F US Navy C-130H Argentina, Belgium, Israel, Portugal, Au...
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 ... United States Air
Force Fairchild A-10A Thunderbolt II pulls up
to launch its underwing armament of Hughes
Maverick missiles. The Thunderbolt is in
widespread service with both the USAF and
the Air National Guard.
USAF photograp...
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 ... London WCIN 2AT, England. Tel: +44 (171) 753 7777; fax +44
(171)753 7794.
AAC Army Air Corps; AAR Air-to-air refuelling; AB
Airbase; AF Air force; AFB Air force base; AGL
Above ground level; ANG Air National Guard; AP
Airport; BAe British Aerospace; CFIT Controlled
flight into terrain; CNK Cause not known; FOD
Foreign-object damage; IAI Israel Aircraft
Industries; JASDF Japanese Air Self-...
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crew survival be assured. A number of upgrade
programmes, however, have been undertaken
to address these deficiencies.
Flight International flew a B-l operational
training sortie with the Kansas Air National
Guards 184th Bomb Wing to sample its capa
bilities first hand.
FLYING JAYHAWKS
Of the US Air Force's 90 operational Lancers,
17 are assigned to the Air National Guard, split
between...
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 ...f the
XF7-10. Initial flight-rated tests at
the agency's Technical Research
and Development Institute will be
completed in 2005.
REORGANISATION STEPHEN TRIMBLE / WASHINGTON DC
All change at US
Air National Guard
Wings to merge and position gained on F/A-22
The US Air National Guard (ANG) is
reorganising to gain a toehold in
the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F/A-22
Raptor programme and pick up...
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 ...sociated
KC-135 Stratotanker element drawn
from 35 squadrons with 615 aircraft.
These also support other commands
on air-refuelling duties and include
KC-135s assigned to Air Force Re
serve and Air National Guard units.
Four squadrons in two wings, the 380th
and 509th, operate 66 Sram-equipped
FB-lllAs, while SAC's reconniassance
force comprises the 9th SRW with U-2s,
SR-71s, and suppor...
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 ...now operates Adcom's
missile warning and space surveillance
sensors. TAC, already the USAF's
largest single oomimand with a strength
of some 2,300 aircraft, now also em
braces the 455 active and Air National
Guard fighter-interceptors previously
operated under Adcom. These aircraft
maintain the important air defence
commitment over the continental US
with the co-operation of the Canadian...
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 ...to 1996.
The in-service date of the
EASAMS-developed air-defence
command and control informa
tion system has also been pushed
back to 1996. •
US National Guard seeks reconnaissance pods
THE US AIR NATIONAL Guard has issued a require
ment for 26 reconnaissance pods
to be carried by Lockheed F-16s
or McDonnell Douglas (MDC)
F-lSs.
The pods are to be available in
1996, when the US Air Fo...
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 ...now being used for 24,0001b loads
consisting of four 6,0001b containers on one
platform.
USAF Auxiliaries Fly In
FIRST TIME VISITORS TO BRITAIN earlier this
week were a mixed force of more than 30
US Air National Guard tactical and recon-
naissance fighters. The force arrived at
Lakenheath, the major USAF base in
Suffolk, from Ramstein and Hahn in
Germany, last Sunday, August 16, and was
due to le...
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 ...ots to increase their look-out—most of the routes are
for example unidirectional, so a pilot who knew he was in
one could at least concentrate his look-out in the danger
sector while crossing it.
Air National Guard publishes chart
The accompanying reproduction of a chart serves as an
example of the enlightened air-safety attitude which pre
vails in the American armed forces. The map was cir...
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 ... Westing-
house Pave Tack laser designator/
forward-looking infrared (Flir) pod
and firing of the General Electric
Gepod 30 30mm cannon pod. The
company^funded trials took place on
the Wisconsin Air National Guard's
Camp Volk range. In addition to
stores clearance, McDonnell Douglas
wanted to prove the reliability of
weapon stations on the conformal
Fast Pack fuel pallets carried by
Str...
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 ...ive
option, at about 70 per cent of
the cost of anewF-16C.
A new edict then materi-
FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL, 4 October 1986
Several hundred A-7D Corsairs are in service with the US Air Force and the Air National Guard
alised from Tactical Air
Command, which said that
the CAS/BAI aircraft should
cost no more than half as
much as an F-16C. LTV
therefore modified the Strike-
fighter proposal, ...
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 ...liveries to Kawasaki
due by December.
Flight testing of four XT-4
prototypes is proceeding on
schedule, and the Japanese
Defence Agency has declared
itself satisfied with T-4 and
F3 progress.
Air National
Guard buys
C-21As
TUCSON
Gates Learjet has been
awarded a $14 million con
tract by the US Air Force for
four C-21A aircraft. The Air
National Guard will receive
the aircraft, whi...
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 ...en drawn.
The wreckage of the Chinook helicopter which
crashed on the Mull of Kin tyre killing all 29
on board
Abbreviations
AAC Army air corps
AB Airbase
AF Air force
AFB Air force base
ANG Air national guard
AP Airport
CFIT Controlled flight into terrain
CNK Cause not known
FOD Foreign object damage
JASDF Japanese Air Self-Defence Force
NG National guard
PLA People's liberation a...
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 ...ockheed delivers its 2,000th C-130 Hercules
airlifter to the Kentucky Air National Guard.
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It's been quite a haul.
On May 15,1992, the C-130 Hercules airlifter set yet another aviation
milestone-2,000 deliveries in over thirty-five yea...
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