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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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Ottawa Citizen
New information tabled in the House of Commons gives some insight into the number of hours on the airframes of the RCAF's CF-18s.
The document lists 77 CF-18s in service at Cold Lake, Alberta and Bagotville, Que.
The "to be determined" columns are for "hours at retirement" and the date of retirement.
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CBC News
As a Royal Air Force pilot flying almost daily missions against Nazi targets in Europe, Dr. Peter Roper never really expected to live past his early 20s.
It didn't help that he flew Typhoons, the RAF's lethal ground attack fighter-bomber with a grim habit of trapping pilots as they tried to bail out.
Roper said the life expectancy for young pilots in some Typhoon squadrons was about three weeks. "We knew it was going to happen to all of us, at least we expected it to," he recalled recently.
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The National Interest
In the early 1950s, the Canadian government began to solicit orders for a new high-speed interceptor. The explosion in jet technology had rendered Canada's first- and second-generation interceptors obsolete; in order to patrol Canada's vast airspace, the Royal Canadian Air Force would need something awesome.
Avro Canada answered the call with the CF-105 Avro Arrow, a high-performance interceptor on the cutting edge of existing aviation technology. A big, beautiful fighter, the Arrow offered a promise to patrol Canadian airspace for decades, while also throwing a lifeline to Canada's military aviation industry.
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Esprit de Corps
Minister of National Defence Harjit Sajjan met Esprit de Corps journalist Evelyn Brotherston in his constituency office on April 29. The following interview has been edited for length and clarity.
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National Post
The gloves came off after a group of companies involved in the F-35 project blasted the Super Hornet, and warned the Liberals that Canada's aerospace industry will be permanently hamstrung if the government doesn't stick with the stealth fighter.
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