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Sammy

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  1. WORKERS at the Lockheed Martin plant in Texas have begun assembling Australia's first new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). Defence Materiel Organisation chief executive Warren King said major components of the first Australian aircraft were now being joined to form the aircraft's structure. "Known as AU-1, Australia's first F-35 will now make its way down the assembly line and roll out of the factory for delivery to the RAAF in the summer of 2014," he said in a statement on Friday. The assembly of AU-1 at the plant at Forth Worth started with delivery of the centre fuselage section from the Northrop Grumman plant in Palmdale California late last month. JSF is an advanced stealth combat aircraft set to be the principal combat aircraft for the US, Australia and other nations out to mid-century. Australia is looking to buy up to 100 at a cost of $16 billion. But so far the government has committed to buying just two. JSF has been repeatedly criticised for running late, costing too much and unlikely to deliver all the promised advanced capability. One of JSF's technical problems related to the development of the very advanced pilot helmet, designed to display all aircraft information on the inside of the pilot visor rather than on cockpit instruments. To reduce the development risk, a program to develop an alternative helmet was launched in 2011 but now the F-35 Joint Program Office in the Pentagon has decided that's no longer necessary. Lockheed Martin F-35 general manager Lorraine Martin said the decision to proceed exclusively with the first helmet indicated confidence that technical problems could be resolved.
  2. The same President and Secretary from the first audit to the last one...irrespective of who caused the underlying problem, the same individuals kept ignoring it and not fixing it, and ignoring CASA on our behalf, not to their own detriment but to the detriment of the members...real backyarders...time to elect professional representatives in to help protect our interests, and I do think the sooner the better!
  3. Here is the ATSB listing: http://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2012/aair/ao-2012-130.aspx
  4. At the Temora Members Meeting a couple of years back, didn't the CEO forget what conversations he has had with people? He is very old. I can see how he may be compromising the safety of us members by being forgetful.
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