Hungary is now part of the NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft family, helping to operate the alliance’s fleet of ground radar aircraft. Through 2006, Hungarian Air Force personnel will take up ground and flying positions at the force command headquarters in Mons, Belgium, the fleet’s home in Germany and at the program’s management agency in the Netherlands.
The crash of a T-38 trainer jet this May—which caused a weekslong pause in flights across the fleet—was caused by an improperly installed pin for one of the jet’s horizontal stabilizers, according to a new accident report released Oct. 30. When the pin disengaged midflight, it created the slightest amount…