Izvestaj o incidentu koji se desio
Rafale Jet Flaw Prevented Unintended Pilot Ejection, Accident Citat:An ejection seat flaw in the French Air Force (FAF) Rafale B jet prevented a certain accident when an improperly secured passenger inadvertently released the ejection lever. While the rear-seat passenger, a 64-year old contractor ejected and landed safely, the pilot brought the plane down with the canopy and rear-seat missing to the wind. The incident which happened in March 2019 near Saint Dizier, France had led to a part of the FAF Rafale fleet being grounded. Now a FAF air accident investigation office has documented a series of human and technical errors that led to the major safety compromise. The report released on April 6 said that while the rear-seat ejected after the joy-riding passenger inadvertently released the ejection lever, the pilot remained in his seat as a system flaw prevented both the pilot and rear seats from ejecting. While the aircraft seats have individual levers to initiate ejection, the pilot has a switch to select either single or dual ejection. On the day of the flight the switch had been set to dual ejection. Yet only the rear seat ejected, preventing what would have been a major accident. The joy-riding rear-seat passenger has been identified as a 64-year-old contractor responsible for the test activity of a French armaments company who "reluctantly" got into the back-seat and was ill-prepared for the supersonic fighter capable of high G-forces. When the passenger arrived in Saint Dizier the evening before the flight, he was unaware that his colleagues had arranged a "surprise" rear-seat ride in the FAFs most advanced fighter, the report said. His colleagues, who included a former French Air Force pilot, wanted to make the flight a surprise, the passenger “never expressed a desire to carry out this type of flight and, in particular, on Rafale,” the report summarized. The passenger was informed only hours before the flight and not given any detailed briefing for him to prepare. “The passenger did not feel he could decline the gesture, bowing to the social pressure imposed by his colleagues,” the report said.
https://www.defenseworld.net/news/26700/Rafale_Jet.....o82NW7VLGg
Katarci do sada primili 15 komada
Citat:Qatar has received 15 Dassault Rafale fighters out of the 36 it has on order (plus an option for another 36), and its first squadron is working up at the new Tamim Air Base at Dukhan in western Qatar.
https://www.defense-aerospace.com/article-view/rel.....adron.html
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Pa ovde je bilo vise srece nego pameti, na demo-letu za starkelju.
Original tekst: https://www.aerotime.aero/clement.charpentreau/247.....dium=email
Putnik se vezao sam, umalo ispao iz sedista, otpala kaciga prilikom katapultiranja...sreca u nesreci da je prosao sa manjim ozledama, a pilotsko sediste se nije aktiviralo, pa je spasio avion.
Ipak odlozeno
Delivery of Rafales to India will likely be in July Citat:India will likely have to wait till July to get its Rafale jets on home soil, according to The Hindu.
The delivery flight home has been delayed due to COVID-19 travel restrictions. Test and support equipment are still stuck in India. Travel restrictions imposed by India on anyone coming from Europe is complicating the situation.
http://alert5.com/2020/04/13/delivery-of-rafales-t.....e-in-july/
Citat:A French Air Force Rafale single-seat fighter deployed to the forward air base in Jordan with the new RECO-NG reconnaissance pod fitted to its centerline pylon. This pod has been operational since the end of March.
Citat:Further testing has been picked up again at the Bharatiya Vayu Sena (Indian Air Force) Rafale fighter aircraft. Just after 17 March 2020, all work was stopped at Dassault Aviation due to the COVID-19 epidemic. Work at the factory started again on 11 May 2020.
On 20 May 2020, Rafale EH single seat serial BS004 was seen performing high speed runway tests at Dassault's factory airfield Bordeaux/Mérignac
https://www.facebook.com/Scramblemagazine/posts/3651931628166678
Indija
Citat:
The first batch of Rafales of No.17 Squadron will now arrive in Ambala in late July, the rest expected by early 2021
The second Squadron (No.101) to be formed at Hashimara in north Bengal will get their Rafales in April-May 2022
https://twitter.com/ReviewVayu/status/1265222615209086981
