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1983
1983 - 0992.PDF
WORLD NEWS US Navy agrees Hawk loan LONDON ~ Agreement has been reached on the loan of 12 Royal Air Force Hawk trainers to the US Navy for up to four years from 1984. The Hawks will be used for Naval Flight Officer training until the land-based VTX-TS Hawk enters service in 1987/88. The US Navy is not being charged for the loan, and support will be provided by British Aerospace and McDonnell Douglas while they continue to develop the T-45 Hawk VTX. The RAF has sufficient Hawks for its training purposes, having lost only three out of the 175 delivered. Syrians fire on Israelis TEL AVIV A serious confrontation between the Israeli and Syrian Air Forces was narrowly averted on May 24 when Syrian fighters fired two air-to-air missiles at Israeli aircraft on their regular reconnaissance flights over Lebanon. According to the Israeli Army spokesman the missiles missed, and the Israeli aircraft did not fire back, returning safely to base. This is the first incident between the two Air Forces since August 31, 1982, when the Israelis shot down a Syrian MiG-25 near Beirut, and is regarded as a serious breach of the cease fire. The Israeli Army has released details of an attack the previous night on one of its helicopters operating close to Syrian positions in Lebanon. According to the spokesman two SA-7 shoulder-launched missiles were fired. Both missed and the helicopter was undamaged. US intelligence reports are quoted as revealing signs that the Syrians could be preparing to move SAMs back into Lebanon, an action that would not be tolerated by the I Israelis. The Cessna Citation II Naval Trainer has a radar nose Cessna wins US Navy trainer contest WICHITA The US Navy has selected the Cessna Citation II business jet for its Undergraduate Navy Flight Officer (UNFO) train ing system upgrade. Under the $160 million contract Cessna will supply 15 aircraft, two simulators, plus pilots and maintenance services for five years at 17,000 flight hours a year, with an addi tional three-year option. The modified Citation lis will be delivered between August 1984 and June 1985 to Pensacola Naval Air Sation, Florida. The Citation Navy Trainer featues a modified wing for improved high-speed, low-level handling, and uprated Pratt & Whitney JT15D-5 turbofans for better acceleration, climb rate, and top speed. The aircraft will operate with an instructor and two students at separate training stations in the cabin, and the pilot and a third student in the cockpit. Under subcontract to Cessna, Singer-Link will supply and maintain two ground-based simulators, each with four student stations. Singer will deliver one air-to-air intercept and one ground-map radar trainer to Pensacola for the training of Navy flightcrew in radar procedures, navigation, com munication, and aircraft systems management. NTSB concerned about ATC safety WASHINGTON The National Transportation Safety Board thinks that the nation's air traffic control system is being brought up to pre-strike speed too quickly. But the FAA says in reply that the ATC rebuilding pro gramme is a little ahead of schedule and will remain so. According to FAA spokes man Dennis Feldman "the best evidence is the record itself," and, since no accidents have been attributed to strike - related causes, the system is working well and can be expected to continue to do so. The FAA has announced that, except for a few scat tered congestion problems, such as at Chicago O'Hare and New York JFK airports, all landing and take-off slot constraints will be removed by the end of this year. In its most recent study of the ATC system, the NTSB said that as FAA flight restrictions are lifted and air traffic increases accordingly, "the controllers' workload is increased and the margins for error are reduced logarithmically". To deal with this problem, the NTSB said that the FAA should postpone planned increases in permitted air traffic volume until a sufficient number of control lers are trained and qualified, and supervisors can be returned to supervisory duties. Exosat launch perfect VANDENBERG AFB The European X-ray satellite Exosat was successfully launched on May 26 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. One and a quarter hours after the Thor Delta 3914 had deposited its load in space, the satellite began sending signals back to Earth. Full ground control has been established, star sensors deployed, and experiment covers removed. Exosat, built by the MBB-led Cosmos consortium, will make detailed observations of known X-ray sources. Hawkeyes for Far East SINGAPORE The USA plans to sell four Grumman E-2C Hawkeye airborne early warning aircraft to Singapore. The Hawkeye will be used to monitor air and sea traffic approaching the Strait of Malacca. In seeking permis sion for the $600 million sale, the Pentagon described this busy stretch of water as a "strategic chokepoint". The USA has announced plans to sell 24 McDonnell Douglas Harpoon anti-ship missiles to Japan to arm three new destroyers. 1618 FLIGHT International, 4 June 1983
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