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Newsletter 27
Summer 2010
Updated on 122Aug2010
Published by the Hawker Association
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Contents
Editorial
Annual General Meeting
Aviation Art
Brooklands Anniversaries
Defence Electronics History
Early Years Of The Pegasus
F-35 Lightning II News
Ham Factory Ownership
Harrier Conversion Team
Hawk News
Kingston Camm Centre
Members
New Books
Programme For 2010
Sea Fury News
Sea Harrier News
Treble One Hunter Appeal


    During David Cameron’s visit to India the delayed follow-up order for Hawks was signed. It is for 57 aircraft, 40 for the Air Force and 17 for the Navy, to be built under licence by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL)at Bangalore. The order is worth £500 million to BAES and £200 m to Rolls-Royce. BAES will provide engineering services, raw materials and equipment to HAL and support to the Air Force and Navy. The total Indian Hawk purchase now stands at 123 aircraft.
    In India a new software standard, OFP4, which includes electronic flight reference cards, has been embodied on all 24 BAES supplied aircraft. HAL will build it into Indian built aircraft (6 from kits and 36 built under licence). Former Dunsfold (and Warton) test pilot, Paul Hopkins, is now resident in New Delhi, with his family, in a Business Development role.
    An RAF Hawk TMk2 (Mk128) recently visited Poland on the occasion of a conference weekend marking the 85th anniversary of the founding of the Polish Air Academy in Deblin. The Polish Air Force is looking for a replacement for its ISKRA TS-11s suitable for training their F-16 pilots. An RFP for 16 aircraft is expected. 

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    Flight trials of the Hawk TMk2 on-board simulation system, covering air-to-air radar, radar warning receiver, countermeasures dispensing system, surface-to-air missiles and a range of weapons, have been completed; release to Service will be in October.
    Work has begun on BAES’s £111 million In-Service Support contract to support and maintain the RAF’s 28 Hawk TMk2s. BAES is responsible for ensuring that the fleet is available at RAF Valley for training RN and RAF fast jet pilots. Managing Director of Training and Hawk UK Business is Kingston man Martin Rushton. The first Hawk, XX154, resplendent in black, is now flying with the Empire Test Pilots School at Boscombe Down.
    In Australia the tenth anniversary of the Hawk Mk 127 has been celebrated. The first of 21 Australian built aircraft made its maiden flight on 12 May 2000. Twelve were supplied direct from BAES in the UK. Now 18 aircraft operate from RAAF Base Williamtown in New South Wales and 15 from RAAF Base Pearce in Western Australia.
    In Canada the Hawk Mk115 fleet leader is approaching 5,000 flying hours in just 10 years - about 10 hrs per calendar week. The Hawks operating from Moose Jaw, home of the NATO Flying Training Centre run by the Canadian Government with Bombardier, are used for advanced flying training fighter lead-in training.
    During the FIFA World Cup in South Africa SAAF Hawk Mk120s flew combat air patrols over all 64 matches