What is it really like to fly a V/STOL Sea Harrier on an operational mission? The aircraft is small, with outstanding handling qualities and has an ultra-modern avionics package, writes Lt Cdr Nigel Ward. Here he describes how the adrenalin flows when accelerating up a ship’s ramp, the confidence when ‘stalking his prey’ and the

Lockheed Hudson Part Eight in a Series Examining the Airliners That Established Civil Aviation in Australia In the hectic post-war years of airline expansion in Australia, many aircraft entered service more so on the basis of their availability and price, than suitability as an economically efficient airliner. Several types spring to mind and one of

New computer techniques may help fighter pilots take a tiresome task and fold it away for good. . . Paperwork is a pox on just about everybody’s house – but especially so when it’s crammed in the cockpit of a jet fighter. In these cramped quarters, most pilots are forced to correlate what they are

People have already given it a name – the Plastic Aeroplane; it’s the Lear Fan 2100, definitely the aircraft for tomorrow and the front-runner in a whole new ball game that looks set to tip the world’s aviation industry right on its ear . . . Brainchild of the late, great Bill Lear whose favourite