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...In units such as Squadron 69 they make up the bulk of the manpower, even though reserve duty for pilots is voluntary. “The real issue is not the 37 pilots of Squadron 69....
...The excessive noise issues have been addressed through the introduction of an inner ear piece providing communication functions as well as outer ear protectors....
...A joint Qatari-UK squadron of Typhoon fighter jets has been deployed to support “air security operations” for the tournament....
...In Sebald’s novel it works as an architectural expression of 20th-century Europe — he points to carved symbols of capitalism and international communication over the entrance....
...When the UK’s new aircraft carrier sets sail on its first operational deployment this year, the Royal Air Force/Royal Navy aircraft on the flight deck of HMS Queen Elizabeth will sit alongside a squadron...
...He added that without global positioning systems and other satellite communications, the RAF’s drones would not be able to operate beyond line of sight....
...He said early team members were Grant Simmer in a managerial role and Jo Grindley in communications....
...His father, an oil executive, was a British bomber pilot and squadron leader during the second world war who sometimes towed gliders packed with priests to France....
...One senior official noted that Iraq would not take delivery of a squadron of F16 fighters until 2013. Baghdad still relies on US intelligence – particularly communication intercepts....
...Squadron Leader Neil Cottrell, project leader, said: “For some their confidence will flourish and they will find that enhanced inner strength to face adversity....
...Attempts to isolate Russia in response would be wrong: keeping communication with the regime may help slow its paranoia and adventurism. It also sends a signal to the burgeoning Russian business class....
...As well as aiding the basics of communication in a high-pressure scenario, there are further, if less quantifiable, benefits....
...Army officials also argue that operating drones from the battlefield reduces communications problems, and they balk at suggestions that they should be operated from the US....
...Illustrating the pressure that some personnel such as helicopter pilots and communications experts are under, a squadron of light dragoons that left Iraq in November will head to Afghanistan next month,...
...The cockpit idea was the brainchild of Amir Chodorov, company co-founder and a former Israeli air-force pilot and squadron commander....
...Furthermore, chips running at several million hertz produce enough heat to grill a squadron of chickens....
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