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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This year’s ITEC conference theme, “Interoperable By Design: Connecting People, Technology and Nations”, reflects the changing demands of the global security and defence architecture. MS&T Europe Editor Dim Jones reflects on the event. 17 July 2019
Europe Editor Dim Jones visits RNAS Yeovilton and the Royal Navy School of Survive, Evade, Resist, Extract and Underwater Escape Training Unit – aka “The Dunker”. 27 June 2019
Unusually, the venue for the MFTC was the private Hurlingham Club, founded in 1867 and dedicated to the pursuit of sports - set in magnificent grounds lovingly tended. 14 May 2019
Flight trials off the US East Coast validated the F35/QEC Integration Simulator at BAE Systems Warton. Dim Jones' observations on some of the trials. 30 April 2019
MS&T Europe Editor Dim Jones visited the BAE Systems Training Simulation Integration Facility at Warton Aerodrome factory in Lancashire, North West England, to learn more about the company’s future-focus developments. 30 April 2019
In February, the UK Royal Air Force formally opened its new High-G Training and Test Facility at RAF Cranwell in Lincolnshire. MS&T’s Dim Jones provides a fighter pilot’s perspective on the unique experience. 30 April 2019
MS&T Europe Editor Dim Jones dissects the UK’s Defence Strategy and the likely effects of the impending (?) divorce from the European Union. 2 April 2019
I/ITSEC 2018 has proved again to be the premier event of the military S&T year, rich with content on the show floor, in the conference rooms, and even in the margins. MS&T editors Jeff Loube, Marty Kauchak, Dim Jones and Rick Adams report. 4 March 2019
The sixteenth annual Omega Close Air Support (CAS) Conference took place at the Reading Hilton, west of London, in November. Europe Editor Dim Jones joined the event. 4 March 2019
In pursuit of its Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) aspirations, the US Army will fund a Competitive Prototyping (CP) program aimed at designing, building and testing two aircraft by 2023. MS&T “flying editor” Dim Jones checked out Lockheed Martin’s progress. 4 March 2019
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