Recovery Parachutes for Ultralight Aircraft The statistical evidence in favour of recovery parachutes is steadily increasing. In a recent article (Ultralight Aircraft, February 1985) the manufacturers of one type claim a saving of 15 people in 13 accidents in the USA. Other manufacturers make similar claims. These claims do not tell the whole story. There

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See and Be Seen Bureaucracy Is a Necessary Product of Civilised Society. When That Bureaucracy Though Does Not Always Serve the Needs of Its Citizens, Perhaps It Is Time for an In-Depth External Review. Experienced Pilot and Successful Entrepreneur, Dick Smith Has Spent the Last Two Years Researching Just Why So Many Things ‘Don’t’ Happen

Swords to Ploughshares It’s enough to make you weep! WARBIRDS recently sighted Commonwealth Disposals paperwork of 1949 that sold as scrap a number of WWII ex-RAAF aircraft to the firm Australian Aluminium Company Pty Ltd of Granville NSW. The aircraft, which were then at RAAF Base Wagga NSW, totalled 439 machines in all and had