Pilots try new jets
NZPA staff correspondent Washington. A Royal New Zealand Air Force team is now flying the newest and fastest fighters in the United States as it evaluates possible replacements for New Zealand’s aging Skyhawks. The team of six, led by Group Captain Peter Adamson, has already flown the McDonnell Douglas F-AlB Hornet in Missouri, a fighter-bomber ordered by the Royal Australian Air
Force and which cost up to SUS3O million each. It is also evaluating the General Dynamics Fl 6 Fighting Falcon and the Northrop F2O Tigershark, which is not yet in, production. The team will leave Washington early next month for Britain to try the Jaguar fighter-bomber there. The R.N.Z.A.F.’s 11 Skyhawks, bought in 1970, were designed initially in 1951.
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