…is pictured during its winch demonstration at the half time break of the ACT Brumbies versus Queensland Reds Super 14 rugby match on March 1 at Canberra Stadium. (below) Power ‘Medusa 01’ from the A109E Flight displays over Lake Burley Griffin on March 10 as part of the Canberra Day celebrations. Note the Power’s emergency

…Memorial’s machine. HARS’s machine is pictured here at its Albion Park home base during an open day/fly-in held there hosted by HARS on March 8. (Lance Higgerson) Catalina Import Needs Two Engines the Catalina Flying Memorial (Cfml) is Eager to Obtain Two Replacement Engines for Its Aircraft Vh-cat After November’s Aborted Ferry Flight From Europe.

Flying high in Mooney’s M20TN We’re booming along at 25,000ft, galloping across WA at 275kt. Last week I was doing this in a Learjet. This week I’m in a Mooney Acclaim. Momentarily, I reflected that I hadn’t achieved this giddy altitude in an unpressurised aeroplane for a long time. Then, pondering a little longer, I

New tankers on track While the RAAF’s 33SQN presses ahead towards the June 30 cessation of 707 operations, work on the unit’s first Airbus A330 based KC-30 continues apace at EADS’s Getafe facility, just south of the Spanish capital of Madrid. After completing a series of proximity trials with EADS’s A310 testbed and Portuguese F-16