Setting the new 'Gold standard' - FAST-JET FLYING TRAINING AT RAF VALLEY

摘要

The Royal Air Force's No IV(R) Squadron at RAF Valley flies the BAE Systems HawkT2 in the advanced flying training role. As the editor reports, the training being conducted there is world-leading. WHEN THE UK Ministry of Defence ordered 28 new Hawk Mk128s (T2s) from BAE Systems in late 2004, few could have envisaged just how these aircraft, and the infrastructure into which they would be placed, would revolutionize UK fast jet pilot framing.