Few people realize that not one sortie, with the exception of maybe some B-52 sorties, was flown without tanker support.
About a quarter of all NATO’s Libyan sorties are now being flown by the Americans.
Non-NATOSweden and Jordan flew air patrols enforcing the no-fly zone, while both Qatarand the United Arab Emirates joined strike sorties.
In two years, the figure will be 21 sorties, the colonel said.
The B-1 Fully Integrated Data Link (FIDL) flight test plan for Phase 1 concluded Oct. 16; it included nine sorties performed by the U.S. Air Force at Edwards Air Force Base.
The results indicate that this method can identify and forecast effectively the over - friction malfunction of flight data tape recorder by processing 312 sorties of flight data.
Nato was debriefing the pilots who flew sorties, as well as reviewing data from their aircraft.
During the day, Germans flew 319 sorties; Allies 12,015 (not one was interrupted by enemy air action).
The paper analyses statistically the parameters of acceleration and heart rates in 905 aerobatic maneuvers of 88 sorties.
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