*Source: DTN News / BAE Systems
(NSI News Source Info) COSFORD, U.K. - July 29, 2009: The first Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) Typhoon Aircraft Maintenance Mechanics (AMM) have completed their UK training and graduated from 29(R) Sqn (Royal Saudi Training Flight) at RAF Coningsby.
This significant milestone was marked by a formal graduation ceremony hosted by Wing Commander Stringer, Officer Commanding 29(R) Sqn with several other senior RAF, RSAF and MOD personnel in attendance. Graduation certificates and individual awards were presented on the day by Colonel Al-Gazlan, the Saudi Air Attach based at their London Embassy.
This event marks the successful end of the first AMM UK training programme which started around two years ago. It included English language training, an intensive technical training programme at the Defence College for Aeronautical Engineering (DCAE) at Cosford, Typhoon type training at BAE Systems Warton, and concluded with a period of practical consolidation training at RAF Coningsby, where the trainees worked along side RAF personnel in gaining their flight line authorisations and practical experience.
Wing Commander Stringer remarked on how well the whole training programme had been conducted and he congratulated all of the trainees for their excellent performance on operational duties on 29(R)Sqn. The RAF and BAE Systems also jointly presented special awards to the most improved and outstanding trainees.
The first graduated students have now returned to Saudi Arabia, and have joined the RSAF and BAE Systems team in preparing for the arrival of the first Typhoon aircraft into service. The remainder of the RSAF trainees continue training throughout the UK, and will be progressively transferred back to Saudi Arabia to support future aircraft deliveries.
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