Integrated Flight and Fire Control The last three decades have seen airborne weaponry vastly increase its lethality, with both air-to-air and air-to-ground weapons becoming far more accurate and effective. A closer examination will also quickly reveal why this has occurred, as the once ‘dumb’ weapons became ‘smart’ weapons, with their own guidance systems, relying less

Australian Aviation Proudly Presents Part Three of Our Exclusive Series Explaining the Fascinating World of Airband Monitoring The Inertial Navigation System, or INS, as used in Qantas Boeing 747-238Bs, is decidedly smaller than some radio communications receivers, and possibly even tinier than the HF set you are using to listen to aircraft on shortwave! INS

Will We Be Flying on LP Gas Soon? Aerospatiale has been test-flying a 180 hp Tobago and a Rallye on LP gas for five months now in an evaluation of the possibilities of using LP gas as an alternative to avgas in Piston-engined aircraft. Lycoming are also involved with the evaluation and results to date