This, Pilot Error article, although not a bona fide light aircraft account, deals with basic errors In any man flying – discipline and the unexpected in times of unusual stress. The situations dealt with in this article are fact – although they might sound like fiction! Remedies are left open to the reader. I suppose

The Convair 240/340/440 Series Part Three in a Series Examining the Airliners That Established Civil Aviation in Australia The Convair twin-engined series of airliners grew out of post-World War II requirements for a DC-3 replacement. The design work was initiated in 1945 by the then Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corporation, later to be known as the Convair

RAAF Men Are Top-Test Pilots: Two RAAF pilots have won major prizes for 1980 at the Royal Air Force test pilots’ school at Bascombe Down, UK. Flying Officer John Nicholas Blackburn, 24, of Belgrave, Vic, was dux of the course. John won the awards for best all-round student and best all-round student on fixed-wing aircraft.

Navair to Challenge the Domestics? Bankstown-based charter and air training specialists, Navair, have applied to Transport Australia for Reg 203 status to operate a scheduled air service between Bankstown and Essendon airports. At the time of going to press TA had assigned the request to their bureaucratic limbo with no comment as to when it