Environmental Tectonics (ETC) has sold a Gyro-IPT II spatial disorientation trainer to the Czech air force's Institute of Aviation Mediscience for $1 million. The University of North Dakota's School of Aerospace Sciences has bought a GAT-II general aviation trainer from ETC for spatial disorientation training.
Source: Flight International
With a lightning advance of rebel fighters reaching Damascus, the country’s dictatorial president Bashar al-Assad reportedly fled the capital around the time a Syrian Air flight originating in Damascus disappeared from tracking over the rebel-controlled city of Homs.
Amid a turbulent transition into a new presidential administration in Washington, senior figures in the government are urging a continued commitment to the USA’s defence industry, at a time of precarious global security.
The last European user of the Cold War-era Mikoyan MiG-21 – Croatia – has formally withdrawn the aged type from frontline use, as it continues to transition to the Dassault Aviation Rafale.
