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branch of the Turkish Army (Türk Kara Kuvvetleri, TKK) and is today one of the largest air arms of its kind within NATO. It’s eq ...
Command. The TKK is also receiving six Boeing CH-47F heavy transport helicopters, with an eventual order for 11 to be delivered ...
interchangeable. Usually, a young pilot sits in the forward cockpit for a couple of years before becoming a commander in the bac ...
on August 17, 2011. Meanwhile, in November 2010, shortly after Turkey placed a €150-million contract with AgustaWestland for nin ...
he told Combat Aircraft. ‘We had about 80 [ ying] hours of training. Upon returning to Güvercinlik we had an additional 20 hour ...
‘The rst goal we want to achieve with our training is to have expert weapons systems o cers [WSOs]. The next step will then b ...
The new course at Isparta taps into 30 square miles of training areas with mountains and lakes. The most important reason for th ...
W ALKING INTO THE US Air Force Test Pilot School (TPS) at Edwards AFB, California, you are left in no doubt as to the esteemed c ...
was the golden era of US flight-test, and 26 men made the grade to become astronauts, flying the X-15, Gemini, Apollo and Space ...
Above: TPS commandant Col Charles Webb straps in as his student gets comfortable in the front seat of this F-16D. Frank Visser L ...
The school considers older types to be indispensable as they are better- suited to developing pilot skills. The menu at TPS ther ...
COL CHARLES WEBB Test Pilot School commandant Col Webb received his commission in 1991 from the US Air Force Academy. His ying ...
Right top to bottom: The VISTA F-16D enables students to fl y an aircraft with reconfi gurable fl ight controls. Frank Visser Th ...
REPORT STYLE & COLOUR // FEATURE NAME DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT LINE OF AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY BY DAVID AXE The MAGMA test cra ...
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A section of RF-4Bs from VMFP-3 ‘Eyes of the Corps’. Both wear USS Midway titles but retain their ‘RF’ tail codes. Frank B. Morm ...
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