10 Years Ago •A Boeing 747SP registered N4013 arrived in Sydney on 20 November after a non-stop flight from Bombay. After demonstrations for Qantas it departed on 23 November flying non-stop to Santiago. • The first flight of the N24 Nomad took place during December at Avalon flown by test pilot S. Pearce. In other

If you have never tried getting a Sioux 47 G3B-1 airborne with a density altitude of around 7000 feet and the aircraft sagging under the weight of armour plating, survival kits, personal weapons, plus an observer carrying sufficient weaponry to start and finish WW3 then chances are you’ve missed one of life’s more challenging moments.

This is the second of our annual reviews of Australian helicopter operations and, although much has happened in the industry in the past twelve months, not a great number of changes have occurred, the principal changes being the enlargement of fleets, and some updating to newer and larger equipment. One change that may occur in

Cruise Missiles Part II Conventional and Theatre Nuclear Cruise Missiles The resurrection of the cruise missile in the last decade has spawned a diverse family of weapons, some of which are merely order-of-magnitude improvements upon earlier systems, but some of which do represent original and unique concepts in weapon system development. The impact of this