John Spiers interviews BILL MEEKE and DENNIS HOWE The takeover of East-West Airlines by the Skywest group of Western Australia last Christmas sent shockwaves through the airline industry. By the third quarter of this year, Skywest/East-West was well on the way to establishing a national jet network linking all State capitals, albeit on some less

At 1 a.m. local time on the morning of Monday, 10th October, a Boeing 747SP, registration number VH-SRX departed from gate 27 at Honolulu International Airport on its regular scheduled flight to Townsville. On board were some 252 souls, passengers and crew, people returning from holidays, people setting out on holidays, people travelling on business.

Precision Guided Munitions The New Breed Precision Guided Munitions (PGMs) entered the world of warfare in the sixties, and the basic species then matured in the seventies. Though the weapons of the seventies were a far cry from the rather rudimentary systems of a decade earlier, they all had one essential characteristic in common: one

Part 2. V.H.F.IU.H.F. Guide To Air Traffic Frequencies Last issue, we rounded off the information with the official frequency spectrum list, which shows VHF (very high frequency) as 30 Mhz to 300 Mhz, and UHF as 300 Mhz to 3 Ghz. In aviation practice however, VHF extends only to 200 Mhz, and UHF military frequencies