An Israeli air force colonel has been selected to train to fly as a payload specialist on a US NASA Space Shuttle mission in late 1998. The pilot, who is unidentified for security reasons, will conduct national science experiments provided by Israel, but the US space organisation will pay for the pilot's training under the conditions of an agreement which was signed in October 1996.
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.
