A US General Accounting Office (GAO) report confirms that the US military completed one of its safest flying years during fiscal year 1997 despite a rash of accidents last September. The mishap rate was 1.5 accidents per 100,000 flying hours, which is unchanged from the previous two years. There were 68 major US military accidents, three fewer than during the previous year, and the lowest number since 1958 when the Pentagon began keeping records.
Source: Flight International
Italy has followed fellow Eurofighter partner nation Spain and placed a long-trailed follow-on order for up to 24 examples of the multirole jet. Disclosed on 23 December, the order, placed via the NATO Eurofighter and Tornado Management Agency, will see the new fighters replace the Italian air force’s current Tranche ...
Two US naval aviators safely ejected from their Boeing F/A-18F over the Red Sea after the jet was mistakenly targeted by one of the guided missile ships escorting the aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman.
Sweden’s Defence Materiel Administration has awarded Saab a SKr466 million ($42 million) contract to support further development of the nation’s Gripen C/D fighter fleet.
