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1970
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South African Air Force equipment seen during its recent 50th anniversary celebrations: from the top, a Super Frelon (code-named Hippo potamus); one of the newly acquired SA.330 Pumas of 19 Sqn; and an HS.I25 of 21 Sqn by the Minister of Defence for Equip ment, Mr John Morris, in a written Parliamentary answer on April 9. He was answering Mr Roy Roebuck (Lab, Harrow, East), who had asked for details of equipment and services pro vided for the former Royal Rhodesian Air Force, to which reference was made (page 129) in the 1968-69 Defence Accounts. Mr Roebuck wanted to know how much of the loan in connection with those items was outstanding. In his reply, Mr Morris said: "The sum of £918,409 which appeared in the 1968-69 Defence Accounts as a loan out standing is in respect of Hunter aircraft and associated ground equipment and spares supplied to the then Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. The total value of these supplies agreed in 1961. together with Canberra supplies agreed in 1957, was £3.8 million, and the sum of £918,409 was the amount outstanding in 1966 when, as a response to the imposition of financial and economic sanctions, the illegal regime refused to make further payments." Canadian CF-5 Squadrons TWO SQUADRONS OF Canadian-built CF-5s (Northrop F^5s) have so far been formed in the Canadian Armed Forces—the 433rd "Porcupine" tactical squadron at Bagotville, Que, and 434th training squadron at Cold Lake, Alberta. These two units will be at full strength and operational early this summer. The for mer has received 12 CF-5s and the latter 35. A total of 115 CF-5As and -Bs has been ordered by the CAF, to be used in the ground support and training roles. Orders for the remaining 68 aircraft are due to be completed by February 1971, and at present it is envisaged that these will be used as replacements and put into store. Plans to form a third CF-5 squadron. at Chatham, New Brunswick, have apparently been cancelled and no de cision has been taken on a proposal for two CF-5 squadrons in Germany to replace CF-104 units there. Libyan Mirage Trainer ONE OF THE SALES of nine Fanjet Falcon 20s during the past two months announced by Avions Marcel Dassault (over and above those taken by Pan American World Airways Business Jets Division) was to the Libyan Govern ment, of a model equipped as a Mirage trainer. Libya is being supplied with 50 Dassault Mirage 5s (Flight, January 15, page 71). Awacs Contract Decision CHOICE OF AN AWACS (airborne warning and control system) aircraft for the United States Air Force will not now be announced before the end of April. Com panies contending for the contract are Boeing, with a modified 707, and McDonnell Douglas with a version of the DC-8 Super 62. The type will carry very advanced radar, communications and data-processing equipment, with an over-fuselage rotodome of the kind carried by the Grumman E-2A Hawkeye. Air Warfare College Mobility MANBY'S AXR WARFARE COURSE is hot moving to Leuchars, as was.inadvertently stated in an article on the RAF College of Air Warfare in Flight for March 12, pages 402-403. The course went to Leuchars in the week following this journal's visit to Manby, as one of the student's looks at operational stations; the idea of the course being moved there stemmed from a misunderstanding at a briefing on the college's activities. The air warfare course at Manby is held twice yearly, for group captains and wing commanders. During it (to quote from the article) "students spend part of their time at stations in the United Kingdom to see for themselves how these work and they fly in operational aircraft. . . ." The visit to Leuchars was one of these sorties.
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