1980 Becomes a Black Hole For Airlines: Largely as a result of rapidly increasing fuel prices, lagging airfare increases, and a reduction in passenger travel due to the recession, International Air Transport Association member carriers lost a combined $2000m during 1980. Fuel prices for 1981 appear to have stabilised, with an, increase comparable to the
The British Aircraft Industry since the end of World War II has given birth to more cancelled programs than any other nation. The real tragedy of this fact is not so much the massive waste of public monies, but the acute loss of opportunity and overseas sales, both military and civil, that inflicted the British
After a long and illustrious career with the USAF, US Navy and Coast Guard in addition to the air arms of fifteen other nations, the Grumman HU-16 Albatross is about to enter a new phase of Its life as a commercial amphibian. Redesigned by Resorts International in conjunction with Grumman Aerospace, with a new designation
In civil transportation, if the seventies were the days of the corporate turboprop, then the eighties certainly will be noted for the emergence of a whole new breed of mini-airliner. New turboprop-powered aircraft will certainly turn the wheel full circle as true DC-3 replacements and provide air transportation to small communities just as that faithful
FOR FINANCIAL REASONS the RAAF has been obliged over a period of time to delay the ordering of a Mirage replacement for something in the region of ten years. The taxpayer may rub his hands with glee at the thought of all the money that has been saved by this process of continual deferment, and
Time For Qantas To Watch Its Six O’clock? Exactly a year ago in AADR, we made a comment as to the long-term future of Qantas. At that time It did not really take a mystic to propheslse that the domestics were getting tired of merely flying within continental Australia and that if Qantas saddled Itself