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Aviation History
1987
1987 - 1138.PDF
EASTERN AERO MARINE SERVICE Overhauls Recertifications All Makes And Models Life Vests & Rafts FAA approved repair Sta 4341 Ship via UPS, Federal Express Air or Motor Freight. FIRE EXTINGUISHERS HRD freon fire extinguishers HTL, APCO, kidde and others OXYGEN Puritan-Bennett, Scott, and others SLIDES RFD, Air Cruiser, Pico EAM MANUFACTURES Model KSD-35 Quick don, life vest. Single strap. 35 lbs. buoyancy. TSO, Airfine Approved. 2TO 46 PERSON LIFE RAFTS Models: T-2, T-4, T-6, T-9, T-12, T-2 5, T-46. Approved TSO, FAA, Airline, Boeing, Douglas, Airbus. EASTERN AERO MARINE 3850 N.W. 25th Street Miami, FL 33142 (305)871-4050 Telex: 51-4737 or 27-2705 1-800-843-7238 1-800-The-Raft • Call for additional information & FREE CATALOG DEFENCE ^S^^^^-gg^^ffgl Sea King rescue The skipper of the West German trawler Hessen is winched aboard by a Royal Navy Sea King from HMS Ark Royal as his vessel sinks in the Pentland Firth off northern Scotland. The rest of the crew were rescued by other ships. TRACER US Marine Corps AV-8 Harriers might be deployed aboard ships, including civil ian tankers, in the Persian Gulf. Chairman of the US Joint Chief of Staff, Admiral William Crowe says "That is a very definite possibility." Beech has won a $19-8 million US Navy contract for a follow-on order for 19 T-34C Turbo Mentor primary train ers. The aircraft will be deliv ered between June 1989 and April 1990. Beech has pre viously delivered 334 T-34Cs to the US Navy. Zimbabwe now has 48 MiG- 21 Fishbeds operational with three squadrons at Thornhill AFB near Gweru. The Air Force of Zimbabwe is also updating the strip at Fylde to full operational main base configuration. Sri Lanka has taken delivery of six Harbin Y12-11 light transports, and is considering buying Nanching A-5C fight ers. Japan's Maritime Self- Defence Force,is to retire its six remaining Shin Meiwa PS-1 amphibians from the anti-submarine role before March 1990. The service will retain its ten US-1 rescue amphibians however. The 11th US-1 is currently being built. Dowty has won a $10 million order from the Royal Air Force for Cambs III sono- buoys. Dowty has produced more than 500,000 of the command-active multi-beam sonobuoys. United States Air Force aircrew are to be issued with leather flying jackets, as used in the Second World War, "to enhance esprit de corps" and, the USAF hopes, to keep pilots re-enlisting. The move might cost up to $5 million. Flight understands that no requirement exists as yet for silk scarves. F-4E Phantoms of the 52nd Tactical Fighter Wing at Spangdahlem AB, West Germany, are being replaced by F-16C Fighting Falcons. FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL, 11 July 1987
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