This will be great to watch in summer riding through the woods .... and wait till the spitfire turns up !! Three Hawk fighter jets take up residence at Humberside Airport in preparation for new training academy Three Hawk fighter jets have taken up residence at Humberside Airport in preparation for the new £5 million training academy. The jets will give students the opportunity to learn first hand what a career working for BAE Systems alongside the Royal Air Force will be like. Advertisement The new training academy will provide 60 apprenticeship opportunities each year resulting in 150 jobs in the next three years. Work started last month to build the new training academy that will comprise a hanger, the Hawks, Dominie aircraft, classrooms and practical training workshops. In the meantime, an existing hanger at the airport will be used to house a temporary training academy until the new one is built. Students will be accommodated on the Nightel complex. The first cohort of 15 students could arrive as early as March 2015 for their ‘on aircraft’ phase. BAE Systems has agreed to take on up to 15 students each year from the new Humber University Technical College in Scunthorpe – which will specialise in engineering. The BAE Systems Hawk is a British single-engine, jet-powered advanced trainer aircraft. Operators of the Hawk include the Royal Air Force (notably the Red Arrows display team) and a considerable number of foreign military operators. Once qualified, the students will become part of the BAE Systems team, working alongside the RAF in supporting the fast-jet fleets at RAF Coningsby, RAF Valley and RAF Marham. The trainees could eventually transfer to bases abroad to support international Export programmes. Paul Litten, commercial director at Humberside Airport, said: The arrival of these aircraft marks the next important step in the development of the academy. Clearly this is a very exciting time for us and the construction of the new facility is now well underway. We look forward to welcoming BAE and Resource group into the airport community in 2015. Read more: grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/Hawk-fighter-jets-residence-Humberside-Airport/story-25738562-detail/story.html#ixzz3NK2LVkvg Follow us: @GrimsbyTel on Twitter | grimsbytel on Facebook
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 20:33:57 +0000
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