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Dim Jones

Dim Jones

Dim Jones, our MS&T Magazine Europe Editor, is a former RAF Group Captain with 44 years’ experience in defence aviation, having flown more than 7,700 hours in a wide variety of aircraft, the vast majority fast- jet. Dim served as an Instructor Pilot and Flight Examiner with the USAF, and as a Qualified Tactics Instructor, Squadron Commander, Station Commander and Deputy Inspector of Flight Safety. Dim spent the last six years as a Qualified Pilot Nav Instructor on the Hawk.
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Idea to Reality? Aeralis at Stage 3

November 15, 2022
Dim Jones
It is some 50 years since the UK aerospace industry produced a new training aircraft. All that may be about to change with the development of a new family of modular aircraft by a company called Aeralis.
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Omega: A Ukraine-Driven Urgency

November 2, 2022
Dim Jones
This year, MS&T's Dim Jones is happy to report, Covid constraints had been lifted, and the Omega conference attracted over 150 delegates from 14 nations.
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Superna Petimus: ‘We Seek Higher Things’

August 30, 2022
Dim Jones
Some 56 years on, MS&T’s Martin ‘Dim’ Jones revisited RAF Cranwell, the scene of some of the earliest of his many crimes to find that the hallowed portals remain outwardly pretty much the same.
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IT2EC Reborn, Finally

June 14, 2022
Dim Jones and Andy Fawkes

The return to London’s ExCel Centre and lifting of Covid restrictions helped resurrect the long-delayed 31st iteration of IT2EC. MS&T’s Andy Fawkes and Dim Jones took in the conference and exhibition and came away with a range of reactions.


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Journey to Resurrection: ITEC 22

April 25, 2022
Dim Jones and Andy Fawkes
The much-delayed 31st iteration of the ITEC exhibition and conference will take place at the ExCel in London 26-28 April. MS&T’s Dim Jones and Andy Fawkes discussed the aspirations of the organisers, Clarion Defence and Security, with their Chairman, Air Vice-Marshal (Ret’d) Gary Waterfall.
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Saab Claims 25% US Market Share

April 20, 2022
Dim Jones
MS&T's Europe Editor Dim Jones talked with Hans Lindgren, Saab Training and Simulation’s Head of Business Development.
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The Kipper Fleet Rises Again

April 20, 2022
Dim Jones
In January, the last of nine Poseidon MRA1 airframes was delivered to the RAF at Lossiemouth in Scotland and on 7 March the first UK-based Operational Conversion course commenced.
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Ukraine on the Mind at MFTC

April 19, 2022
Dim Jones
Ukraine and pilot training took centre stage at the Defence IQ Military Flight Training Conference.
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After Helmand: Air-Land Integration

September 7, 2021
Dim Jones
Dim Jones reports on the inaugural Omega Air-Land Integration Conference.
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Protector – Reaper on Steroids

August 31, 2021
Dim Jones

The UK RPAS capability is set to take an exponential step with the imminent introduction of Reaper’s successor system, Protector.


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