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100TH P-8A POSEIDON

and programme manager. "Our focus has airplane to enter the US navy fleet, with
been, and will be, on delivering the world’s six additional jets used as engineering
The US navy received its 100th P-8A best maritime patrol aircraft, bar none.” manufacturing development test aircraft.
aircraft from Boeing as the global fleet, The P-8 is a proven long-range multi-mis- The 100th fully-operational delivery is
scheduled for later this year.
which also includes the Indian navy sion maritime patrol aircraft capable
and the Australian and UK air forces, of broad-area, maritime and coastal Boeing has also delivered 12 jets to the
operations. A military derivative of the
approaches 300,000 flight hours of hunting Boeing 737 Next-Generation airplane, the Royal Australian air force, two to the UK
Royal air force and eight P-8Is to the Indian
submarines and providing aerial reconnais- P-8 combines superior performance and navy. Multiple US navy squadrons have
sance capabilities around the world. reliability with an advanced mission system deployed with the P-8A Poseidon and the
“We’re honoured by the Navy’s faith and that ensures maximum interoperability in Indian navy and Royal Australian air force
confidence in our employees and the P-8 the battle space. are conducting missions with the P-8 as
system,” said Stu Voboril, vice president This is the 94th mission-capable well. Q

AFRICAN

ZIMBABWE AVIATION

AUTHORITIES TO GREEN AIRPORT

FACILITIES

By Wallace Mawire

The first project is expected to be region whose, infrastructure, land use,
implemented at Robert Gabriel Mugabe and economy are centered on an airport.
The Civil Aviation Authority of international airport. It fuses the terms "aero" (aviation) and
"metropolis". He said that Zimbabwe was
“This would in future see us limiting our
Zimbabwe has called for expression of dependence on hydro-electric and thermal not an exception and needed to move
interest from interested companies and power use at the airport facilities,” Gusha with such global trends in infrastructure
organisations to partner with them to said. development.
develop projects to green the country’s He said that investors were welcome to The organization has also called for
airport facilities. develop the country’s airports to world- expression of interest for companies
Tawanda Gusha, CAAZ director of class standards. interested in starting horticultural facilities
airports told participants at an aviation Gusha said airports worldwide were around the airports.
stakeholders meeting held in Harare on adopting the concept of the aerotropolis Illegal land developments near Robert
13 November 2019 that the authority was model, where facilities found in major cities Gabriel Mugabe international airport were
courting potential investors to develop were being developed around airports. stopped by the government through the
solar farms within the airports. An aerotropolis is a metropolitan sub CAAZ. Q

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