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| Caribbean-Latin America |
| Still going and going and going.......... |
| 2005-11-03 |
| Basler Turbo Conversions in Oshkosh, WI received a $7.1 firm-fixed price contract to provide for turbo converted AC-47T Fantasma (Turbo Dakota) aircraft for Colombia's Air Force. While aircraft numbers were not given, an $11 million 2003 contract to ARINC Engineering Services converted six C-47 Dakotas to AC-47T status, and installed night vision and optical sensors on the Dakotas and six A-37 Dragonfly counterinsurgency aircraft. Can't keep a great plane down.. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #4 Why, or do you associate it entirely with new systems? |
| Posted by: Edward Yee 2005-11-03 18:26 |
| #3 No problem with 'upgrades' per se Wee Yee, tis the transformation werd I deplore. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2005-11-03 15:59 |
| #2 Oh toss off, Besoeker, I don't know if I'm seeing your attitudes correctly, but upgrades are as much a part of transformation as new hardware altogether... |
| Posted by: Edward Yee 2005-11-03 15:29 |
| #1 Good enough airframe to get and Lt Flynn and his lads out of Tshipie and Messina, hehehee. Some things just don't need bloody 'transformation.' |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2005-11-03 11:14 |