Hats Off to Nowra the Navy’s Hmas Albatross Base at Nowra Has Been Selected as the Home of the Adf’s Forthcoming Joint Helicopter School, to Be Established as Part of the Air 9000 Phase 7 Helicopter Aircrew Training System (Hats). The New $100 Million School Will Be Established by 2013 to Train Up to 60
Lockheed Altair Replica to Be Built a Full Scale Flying Replica of Charles Kingsford Smith’s Lady Southern Cross Lockheed Altair is Planned to Be Built in Queensland. It Was in the Altair That Kingsford Smith Disappeared in November 1935 as He Flew Across the Bay of Bengal During an Attempt on the England to Australia
Airline News It Has Been a Busy Period for Airline Deliveries With the Arrival of No Fewer Than Seven Aircraft: a 757-200 to Air Niugini, Two A320s to Tiger, Two Fokker 100s to Skywest, an E-170 to Virgin Blue and a Dash 8-q311 to Anz Link/air Nelson. Departures Comprised an Ansett Bae 146-300 and an
Here at Australian Aviation we don’t usually like to criticise other media organisations – we’re certainly not perfect! But the October 29 episode of the ABC’s Four Corners program, which until now was probably one of the last bastions of balanced current affairs reporting in Australia, deserves comment. And not so much for the conclusions
10 Years Ago • The last unit in the world to operate the Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar, the Republic of China Air Force’s 103rd Squadron, held a ceremony at Pingtung on December 19 to mark the type’s retirement. • An announcement from Boeing on December 2 said it had been awarded one of three Initial
Rally Australia chopper flying Finely tuned race vehicles tear down slippery forest roads at almost 200km/h passing only centimetres from trees and boulders before torturing their brakes towards the next hairpin turn. But if you think they are having all the fun, you should speak to the chopper pilots overhead! Rally Australia awakened the quiet