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1965
1965 - 0077.PDF
filCHT International, 14 January I96S 1 jnnuin British Aircraft Corporation has been awarded a contract to develop for the Royal Air Force a pressurised jet trainer, the BAC145, to be known in the RAF as the Jet Provost T Mk 5. Design of the BAC 145 is backed by the experience already gained in over 300,000 Jet Provost flying hours and in producing already more than 450 Jet Provosts for the RAF and five overseas Air Forces. Jet Provost flight experience, supplemented by exhaustive fatigue research carried out during actual flying training programmes, enables an airframe life of 15 years, assuming normal utilisation, to be confidently forecast for the BAC 145. Versatile, and as reliabte as the Jet Provost, it retains the well-proven Bristol Siddeley Viper engine and, with its pressurised cockpit will allow protracted training exercises to be carried out at high altitude in safety and comfort thus widening still more the scope of the syllabus that can be undertaken by a single aircraft type. BRITISH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION 1OO PALL MALL LONDON SW1 ENGLAND
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