ANOTHER milestone in the progress of the Eurofighter has been clocked up.
DA5, of the the two development aircraft based in Germany, completed the programme's 500th flight at the Daimler-Benz factory in Manching.
Almost 450 hours have now been flown by the seven Eurofighter development aircraft with a further 2,500 hours of work on the flight simulator.
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