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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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National Post
The 79 Canadians who inhabit the northernmost community on Earth last saw daylight on Oct. 14 at 12:30 p.m. The sun will next crest the horizon here at 10:41 a.m. on Feb. 28. When it does, Canada's "frozen chosen" will hold a party to celebrate its return.
The Cold War never ended at Alert, the Canadian Forces' remotest outpost. It abuts the Arctic Ocean atop Ellesmere Island, closer to Moscow than to Ottawa and further from the capital than Halifax is from Vancouver. And since it opened in 1956, the top-secret military installation has developed a near-mystical reputation within the Forces.
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Ottawa Citizen
In these new photos released by Combat Camera, a CC-150T Polaris aircraft provides air-to-air refueling to a Royal Air Force Tornado fighter jet over Iraq during Operation IMPACT. The Polaris pilots are shown getting ready for their mission.
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National Post
It was about -30 with the wind chill and the Arctic fox gambolling in the snow near the Top of the World Club on this U.S. air base in northern Greenland was blissfully unaware that a new variant of Washington's old enemy, Homo Sovieticus, is preparing five new nuclear missile regiments and building or rebuilding 17 Arctic bases on the far side on the North Pole.
But others are paying attention.
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Ottawa Sun
Canadian fighter jets made a rare bombing run on Islamic State forces in Syria recently, only the fifth time in almost a year that such targets have been attacked.
The raid also came as the Liberal government prepares to outline to Canadians the timeline by which it will withdraw the six fighter jets from the mission and increase the number of training troops for Iraqi security forces.
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Vertical Magazine
Nobody seemed surprised except me. "Our gross take-off weight will be 38,163 pounds," declared flight engineer MCpl Greg Bullivant. He must have seen the expression on my face. He patiently explained that we were still about eight tons below maximum gross take-off weight.
By any measure, the Royal Canadian Air Force's new Chinook helicopter is a heavy hauler, but its capabilities go well beyond brute strength.
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