| Test Flight and Development Centre SAAF - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (345 words) |
 | The end result was that the Test Flight and Development Centre was officially established on 10 August 1975 at AFB Waterkloof. |
| By 1979, the TFDC had grown large enough to merit the allocation of one of the hangar complexes at AFB Waterkloof, and in 1980 it established a satellite unit at Van Ryneveld Airfield in Upington to conduct weapons release tests. |
| It is currently also assisting the Luftwaffe in the testing of the Taurus stand-off missile, for which two Panavia Tornado aircraft haved deployed a number of times to AFB Overberg from Germany with the help of a SAAF Boeing 707 aerial tanker. |
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