Military rundownSir,The article “Defence the way forward” by Peter Westmore (News Weekly, April 21, 2001), which highlighted the Royal New Zealand Air Force’s present plight, should not be looked at as an Australian perspective of our close neighbour-in-arms. In Australian Aviation (November 2000, page 4), Jim Thorn reported a similar state of affairs in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). His article stated that there were at the time of writing, only 11 active pilots for the 33 F111s and o…

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