[simpits-tech] Trainer for sale

[Jim K.]

On Wed, 8 May 2002, Mark Doran wrote:
 > Looks like the vendor can't sell outside of the US...
 > Cheers,
 > Mark.
 >>I'd be much more willing to believe that he _won't_ rather than can't.
There isn't any technology in that thing that would preclude it from being
exported.
g.>>>>


Actually he probably can not export that trainer.  It's not so much that 
there is any technology in that trainer its that the U.S. does not want any 
military equipment going outside the country from 3rd parties.  I had a 
buddy that was doing scrap work on F-4's.    He was visited many times by 
the FBI and others about not exporting anything from those 
aircraft.  Everything had to be de-milled.  Many countries (6) still fly 
F-4's and buying scrap stuff is the only way they get spare parts.   So 
years ago there used to be a huge business in buying surplus than selling 
it to foreign countries.  The trainer that is for sale on eBay does not 
have any real components other than the sticks.  Its just a trainer to 
familiarize pilots with the layout of the cockpit and I'm sure it can't be 
exported.

I just completed putting together an F-4 ejection seat and it was tough 
finding parts for it that were not de-milled.  But luckily I have it 
completed now.  I got some stuff from Martin Baker directly as well as from 
another company that converts F-4 to drones for the U.S.
JimK