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The Casa C-101 Aviojet, one of several high-performance trainers that could be optimised in a special day fighter/light ground attack squadron that the RAAF is conceptually evaluating for the nineteen nineties. For full details please refer to our In-depth interview with the GAS, Air Marshal Ray Funnell is elsewhere In this issue.
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Raaf to Look At Forming Special Day Fighter Squadron:
Revealed in this issue’s special Interview with Chief of the Air Staff Air Marshal Ray Funnell, is the plan to establish a special day fighter squadron in the early nineties.
The purpose of the squadron would be to take graduating fast jet pilots directly from Pearce and rather than have them in a limbo situation awaiting squadron transfer, to place them in a special purpose squadron where their day/clear weather ACM skills can be honed prior to converting to Hornets and perhaps F-111 aircraft.
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