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As you know, the RCAF Association delivers RCAF Association News direct to your inbox each Friday, briefing you on the latest industry news that impacts your practice. But we know you are busy and may have missed an important article or two. To that end, here's your monthly recap of the top five stories your peers accessed last month. For more articles, or to see what's trending now, visit the RCAF Association News portal. To unsubscribe from this monthly recap, click here.
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Belleville Intelligencer
The impressive hangar managed to make the hulking CC-177 Globemaster parked inside look small.
Officials cut the red ribbon for Hangar 6 recently, a massive structure that's been under construction since 2012.
The view from an elevated walkway that runs the width of one of the hangar bays, the Globemaster seemed to shrink in size.
With a building footprint of more than 17,000 square-metres, the two bay structure is the size of three Canadian Football League fields. Each bay is roughly 5,000 square-metres, or the size of three NHL hockey rinks.
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iPolitics
For the first time in Canadian history, the Royal Canadian Air Force will have a female deputy commander.
But for Maj.-Gen. Tammy Harris, whose career has been marked by firsts, the honour she feels heading into her new post goes beyond being a symbol of women's advancement in the military. It's more about using her new responsibilities to champion the need for broader diversity and inclusion in the Canadian Forces — particularly when it comes to young people.
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Skies Magazine
Forgive Fernando Alonso for looking a little shell-shocked on Dec. 8, 2016. Just 48 hours earlier, the head of military aircraft for Airbus Defence and Space had been informed at his office in Spain that the company's C295W had won Canada's fixed-wing search and rescue competition. Standing in the hangar of 424 Transport and Rescue Squadron at 8 Wing Trenton, ON, on that cool winter morning amidst government ministers, senior officials, search and rescue technicians and other military personnel, reality began to set in.
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CFB Esquimalt Lookout
Milt Schmidt, the last surviving member of hockey's famed "Kraut Line" and a former member of the Royal Canadian Air Force, died Jan. 4, 2017, in Massachusetts. He was 98, and the oldest living former member of the National Hockey League.
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CBC News
The Trudeau government has begun talks with Washington about the sole-source purchase of up to 18 Super Hornet jet fighters.
The measure, intended as a stopgap solution to ease pressure on the air force's aging fleet of CF-18s, could cost taxpayers between $5 billion and $7 billion over the lifetime of the aircraft, according to data circulating within the Department of National Defence and shared with CBC News by sources who insisted upon anonymity.
The figures are only preliminary, but they are backed up by U.S. congressional budget information.
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