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Australian Aviation proudly presents part one of a three part series explaining the fascinating word of AIRBAND monitoring. Retail sales of receiving equipment capable of monitoring public service radio bands is currently undergoing a boom period, and some of the most consistent sellers are AIRBAND radios. V. H. F. portables, scanning receivers, and shortwave communications
It was not until World War II was imminent that Sir Frank Whittle, after struggling for almost a decade, received any Government support for his revolutionary proposal of the centrifugal jet engine. The way of a pioneer can, indeed, be a hard one, and without staff and workshop facilities, he took his first design to
How vulnerable is the carrier today, or moreover tomorrow or in fifteen years hence when a new RAN carrier would still be a relatively young member of the fleet? Having had the recent pleasure of seeing the USS America in action off the West Australian coast it is easy to see how the pro-carrier lobby
Piper’s twin line, begun way back in the early fifties with the Apache and Aztec, has climaxed as far as the light twin-motor progression at Vero Beach is concerned with the bold new Seneca III. The company claims that its Seneca line – specifically the Seneca II – has been one of the most popular
The employment of an RAAF C130 Hercules in aerial firebombing operations this summer has raised considerable controversy. The RAAF is not happy at having one of its most useful aircraft dedicated to this task, and it appears that a majority of bushfire fighting authorities remain unconvinced about the value of aerial firebombing. At the time
The world of the fifteen to nineteen-seat unpressurised commuter is not known for the overwhelming use of advanced technology, either in systems or design. However, a European manufacturer with more than seven decades of aviation experience, Dornier, has produced an excitingly different commuter airliner in an amazingly short time. This content is available exclusively to
