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FLIGHT International, 7 July 1979 9 Milan night firing successes EUROMISSILE has completed two successful night firings of the Milan anti-tank missile. Both tests took place in "black night" against fixed and moving targets at 1,500m and 1,200m range respectively. Foreign delega tions visiting the Satory military exhibition were invited to attend the trials, which were supervised by teams from Britain, France and Germany who are cooperating on the develop ment of the night-vision system. The thermal-imaging night sight can be fitted to existing Milan firing posts without modification. New seats for US Navy THE US Navy is expected to decide by July 15 to replace the ejector seats in up to 2,000 of its combat aircraft. The Navy wants to replace the Douglas Escapac seats fitted to the McDonnell Douglas A-4 Skyhawk and A-3 Skywarrior, the Vought A-7 Cor sair II and the Lockheed S-3 Viking. The service is evaluating proposals from three bidders—Teledyne Ryan, which is a Martin Baker licensee; Rockwell International; and Stencel. Backfire blunder MULTIPLE independently targetable gremlins seem to have escaped the Salt II treaty limitations and attacked last week's Flight. Production workers on the Backfire production line must have been surprised to read on page 2328 that the Soviet Government ". . . will increase the production rate of this aircraft." President Brezhnev's statement in fact read ". . . will not increase the production rate . . .". The second gremlin impacted on page 2335 completely removing the first line. This should have read "This device operates in the visible spectrum and near infra-red . . .". S34S Aeritalia's AMX proposal comes in two guises; with the radar nose seen here or with a laser nose. Powered by an Alpha Romeo-built Rolls-Royce Spey, AMX is designed to carry 3,0001b of stores over a radius of 180 n.m. at low altitude. Gross weight is around 20,0001b F-4/Pawnee crash payment COMPENSATION has been paid to the relatives of the pilot who was killed when his Piper Pawnee crop sprayer collided with a low-flying Royal Air Force Phantom. A Ministry of Defence spokesman says "any claims have been disposed of" while Pilot magazine says the payment is reported to be "astronomic." Piper PA25-235 G-ASVX, belonging to ADS (Aerial) of Southend collided with Phantom FGR.2 XV493 at Ford- ham Fen, Norfolk, on August 9, 1974. The pilot of the Pawnee and the pilot and navigator of the Phantom were killed. Aircraft Accident Report No 9/75, published in September 1975 by the Accidents Investigation Branch of the Department of Trade, con tained the following summary: "The Phantom aircraft was on a low-level navigation and recon naissance exercise and the PA25 air craft, having completed a crop-spray ing operation, was in transit to its local operations centre on a track approximately at right angles to the Phantom. Neither pilot saw the other aircraft in time to take avoiding action and the two aircraft collided at about 300ft above ground level, while flying in visual meteorological conditions . .." The report concludes that: "The 'see and be seen' principle was in adequate for preventing collision in the circumstances that existed. A sig nificant feature which contributed to the accident was the absence of any system for co-ordinating military and civil low-flying activities in the low- flying areas and link routes." The report recommends that infor mation on military low-flying areas should be made available to civil pilots; that private pilots be made aware of the nature of military low flying; and that an advisory service be provided to co-ordinate civil and military low-flying operations. The Royal Air Force has since introduced and a new low-flying system. Proposed layout of the British Aerospace Super Harrier shows the marriage of the Big Wing with the Sea Harrier front fuselage. New intakes with a double row of blow-in auxiliary inlets cope with the increased mass flow required by the Pegasus 11-35. Strokes and dam on the gun pods augment the cushion in the hover. The 250ft2 wing carries an extra 245 gallons, freeing the inner pylons for weapons. The outer stations carry Sidewinders British Aerospace Super Harrier M ~- \ TFBJHaKnr
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