The French Ministry of Defence has awarded a Maintenance,
Repair, And Overhaul (MRO) contract to Charlotte, NC-based Goodrich
Corporation for more than 1,300 operational fleet aircraft --
including fighters such as the Mirage 2000, as well as transport
aircraft and helicopters such as the Puma, Super Puma, and
Cougar.
It Costs Money To Jail Your Pilot And Fill In The Hole His
Plane Made
Military people in general tend to be proud, and Russians
particularly so. Their military has a long history, and can make a
defensible claim to the scalps of Napoleon and Hitler -- if nothing
else, the scalps of their legends of invincibility. So the
embarrassment of the recent incursion by a lost Russian fighter
pilot into Lithuanian territory is a particular source of grief
that just hasn't let up.
Last week, AERO Vodochody a.s. completed the final tests of a
significantly upgraded version of its Czech VS-2 ejection seat by
conducting two live ejections over Sazena airfield.
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