Piston trainer are great to teach early student flight coordination. Their inherent low kinetic flight characteristic unmask any error and are more forgiving at this early stage than a faster evolving turboprop.
Grob makes an excellent range of early/advanced trainer that in some case can step on the feet of more classical turboprops like the PC7/9.
The problem of the all jet training is that it doesn’t lead to a natural joke/rudder culture that a fighter pilot will find useful again in the high alpha birds of tomorrow.

Turkey aims to produce long-range missiles

Security analysts say Turkey would eventually aim to produce ground-to-ground missiles with a range of up to 1,000 kilometers.

Some of the foreign capitals falling within that range if a missile is fired from Turkey include Damascus, Baghdad, Tehran, Tel Aviv, Cairo, Belgrade, Athens, Kiev and Budapest.

“If Turkey makes verifiable progress in its ‘offensive’ [ground-to-ground] long-range missile system, this will inevitably have repercussions in the region. Some of the countries that feel politically and militarily threatened by Turkey would seek ways to develop or buy systems that would intercept the Turkish system. Secondly, they may seek ways to develop or buy their own offensive systems, sparking a kind of missile race within this very turbulent region,” a security analyst said.

Source:
DefenseNews.com

intuitively, the 404 swap will be the most economical.

Romania halts Orbiter 4 procurement after appeal

Source:
FlightGlobal.com

Possible Flap track fairing (with barnacles) washed ashore on the east cost of South Africa

“This morning, a local person found some items that washed up on a beach on the Transkei coast near East London that looked like they could be from an aircraft. They sent the cell phone pics taken of these parts to one of our local aviators and the pics have been sent to our local [air traffic control] who will circulate them and notify the relevant authorities,” Onions wrote.

Source:
The Christian Post
http://www.avcom.co.za/

Oceanographic analysis offers potential crash site of MH370

The analysis showed that it would take six months to one year for the drifters to reach western Australia and one-and-a half to two years to reach eastern Africa. Interestingly, two drifters traveled from the search region to the area of Reunion Island during the period between the crash of flight MH370 and when the airplane flaperon was found.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-01-oceanographic-analysis-potential-site-mh370.html#jCp

368 undrogued surface drifter were used that map the entire probability zone.

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a subset of 97 drifters from that group (red trajectories) that eventually reached the purple box, which surrounds Reunion Island.

Launch location of those drifter can define a corresponding crash probability zone that match the other results
2 ended up of La Réunion’s shores.

Two of them (thick black trajectories in Figure 1) reached the purple box in July and November of 2014. Remarkably, one of them (thick red trajectory in Figure 1) reached the purple box in July 2015, the same month that debris from flight MH370 washed ashore on Reunion Island.

airplane debris [were] found on Reunion Island, backtracking the positions of the 375 surface drifters that travelled within the purple box during the last 25 years may also help identify the possible initial location of the debris.

In other words, it is hardly believable that so few debrit ended-up in the hands of the Fr authority without implementing the astounishing local policy to harshly pay non state-worker to burn everything they found on the beach at night, something, as said much earlier, that stands out of any Fr law or usage. I will remind you that the comedy around the evacuation of Journalists and media at the time arguing that the nearby volcano will soon erupts adds to the lack of understanding (I posted at the time the volcano activity, eruption policy that are very codified and don’t generally englobe the zone were the debrits were found and does not imply overflight like it was bluntly said in front of the media.

It is clear enough today that, If China and Malaysia does not restart the search, MH370 could slowly end-up being… a French embarrassment.

You can browse up to found all the arguments that were put at the time.

Source:
University of Miami via phys.org

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I wish we had no stealth plane to discuss on. Things were simplier: look, it’s pointy hence faster [NostalgiaOFF]