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04-03-2010: Falsk pilot fløj Boeing 737
"Klokken er 22:45 i går aftes i Schiphol lufthavn i Amsterdam. 101 passagerer sidder og venter på, at den store Boeing fra Coredon Airlines skal lette med kurs mod Ankara i Tyrkiet.

Men pludselig bliver en af piloterne anholdt. Han har ikke noget certifikat. Den 41-årige pilot har fløjet på falske papirer i mindst 13 år og har over 10.000 flyvetimer bag sig. Han har fløjet for belgiske, italienske og britiske flyselskaber.

Ifølge flere hollandske medier var den svenske 'pilot' lettet, da han blev anholdt. Det var de svenske luftfartsmyndigheder, der tippede hollænderne.

Manden er bosat i Milano. Han har engang haft certifikat til sportsfly, men aldrig til passagerfly.

Flyselskabet fandt hurtigt en anden pilot, så det store Boeing 737 kunne lette som planlagt. " - DR.

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24-01-2009: Kritik af JSF stealth egenskaber
En australsk forsker har offentliggjort en kritisk gennemgang af JSF stealth egenskaber.

Hans artikel "Assessing Joint Strike Fighter Defence Penetration Capabilities" kan læses på hans hjemmeside www.ausairpower.net

Her er artiklens Abstract:
"The Joint Strike Fighter is demonstrably not a true stealth aircraft in the sense of designs like the F-117A, B-2A and F-22A, as its stealth performance varies much more strongly with aspect and threat radar operating frequency band.

The degradation of the initially intended Joint Strike Fighter stealth performance occurred during the SDD program when a series of design changes made to the lower fuselage of the aircraft resulted in fundamental shaping changes in comparison with the X-35 Dev/Val prototype aircraft. The Joint Strike Fighter SDD design departs strongly from key stealth shaping rules employed in the development of the F-117A, B-2A, and F-22A, or the never built YF-23A and A-12A designs.

As a result the tactical options available to Joint Strike Fighter users when confronted with penetrating modern Integrated Air Defence Systems (IADS) are mostly those necessary to ensure the survival of non-stealthy legacy aircraft types.

The result of these limitations is that the operational economics of a fighter force using the Joint Strike Fighter will be much inferior to a force using a true all aspect stealth aircraft such as the F-22A Raptor.

As with claims made for Joint Strike Fighter air combat capability, claims made for the Joint Strike Fighter concerning the penetration of IADS equipped with modern radars and SAMs are not analytically robust, and cannot be taken seriously.

Moreover, it is clear that future Joint Strike Fighter users will pay a significant price penalty for a stealth capability unable to deliver much, if any, return on such investment. ".

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