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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It is only a few months since we left Cologne and ITEC 2014, but preparations for the 2015 event are already well in hand. Next year’s Conference Chair, Tess Butler, spoke with Europe Editor Dim Jones. 12 September 2014
It was mostly ‘heavy metal’, but with an S&T sanctuary. Europe Editor Dim Jones writes. 10 September 2014
The AAC provides training for Army Air Corps personnel of all ranks. Europe Editor Dim Jones recounts his visit to the Centre. 1 August 2014
European Editor Dim Jones describes the EW Training Facility (EWTF) at RAF Spadeadam. 18 June 2014
As the S&T world – in Europe, at least – heads to Cologne for ITEC 2014, it may be an appropriate opportunity to review what’s going on in the S&T industry in the host nation, Germany. Dim Jones writes. 12 April 2014
The stakes in the US T-X programme are high; and the Hawk T2 is being put forth as a contender. MS&T’s Dim Jones provides a programme update and an inside look at the Hawk training system. 11 April 2014
MS&T’s Dim Jones describes training at the UK SAR Training Unit, a part of the Defence Helicopter Flying School, and observes the end of an era. 10 February 2014
Zhukovsky – 40 km southeast of Moscow, and the home of the Gromov Flight Research Insititute – was the site of MAKS 2013. Dim Jones reports. 6 November 2013
MS&T’s Dim Jones participates in a Red Force sortie in one of the series Exercise Carbon Copy, in which a force of friendly Typhoons takes on a composite enemy force. 5 November 2013
RAF Boulmer monitors the UK Air Defence Region – and despatches air assets as required. MS&T’s Dim Jones describes the aerospace surveillance and control system and the folks who man it. 5 September 2013
