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Sunday, February 24, 2008

IAF finally gets Hawks to train pilots

After an agonising wait of 27 years during which over 200 air crashes blotched its flight safety record, the IAF finally inducted the British Hawk-132 advanced jet trainer (AJT) at the Bidar airbase on Saturday.

Hawks will simplify the conversion of fledgling fighter pilots from subsonic Kiran trainers to supersonic fighters such as Su-30 MKI, Mirage 2000 and different MiG variants.

The IAF has inducted eight Hawks and another 58 will join its fleet by 2010. Once that happens, rookies will no longer train on the unforgiving MiG-21, whose infamous crash history has earned it epithets such as ‘widow-maker’ and ‘flying coffin’.

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