Re-Inventing the Wheel Two interesting items of note in this edition’s Newsdesk section refer to old aircraft making a vastly revitalised appearance on the world airliner stage. Lockheed, who seem to specialise in the most creative of ideas at times, has offered the Chinese aerospace industry the opportunity to build vast numbers of, you guessed
Auf Update As mentioned in our last report, a new executive has been elected with the only change being that Rod Birrell is now the President. There have also been some changes in the area representatives (Tas, WA, NSW and. possibly Old). The area representatives, together with the executive, comprise the AUF Federal Council. It
Register Review In this issue changes cover the period from late December to the end of June and with more aircraft being added to the register than deleted it would certainly point to a slight upswing in the Australian aviation industry. There are now over seven thousand aircraft on the register with up to 200
Mogas Gets the Nod Mogas users have reported favourably on its use after three years, according to a survey carried out by the Civil Aviation Division. The survey was carried out among 180 operators using super grade road petrol in approved machines: 44 aircraft types which had accumulated 48,000 flying hours since the division gave
Squadron Leader Brian Young C-13OE Captain Our desire to examine the working lives of interesting people who make their living in aviation leads us at 5. 40 am to Sydney’s Richmond Air Force Base, on a cool Friday morning. We are travelling on a scheduled RAAF transport mission, in a Lockheed C-130E Hercules aircraft from