The Lockheed L188 Electra Part Twenty-five In A Series Examining The Airliners That Established Civil Aviation In Australia According to Greek legend, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra was Electra, a name which translates into English as ‘the bright one’. Lockheed following a tradition established with the Vega in 1926 principally named their aircraft after

Battlefield Helicopters An Army Aviator’s View For centuries, military commanders dreamed of being able to see what was going on beyond the next ridge line, to be able to bring accurate fire to bear on their enemies’ depth positions and infrastructure and to be able to move quickly on the battlefield regardless of the terrain.

First Ansett Worldwide Jets To America West Airlines: Ansett’s international leasing division, Ansett Worldwide Aviation Services, is leasing its first 737-300s to America West Airlines of Phoenix, Arizona. The rapidly expanding US region has also contracted for the 12 Ansett Airlines 737-200s which are presently in the process of being withdrawn from local services as

Aviation Budget Puts Cost Recovery on Afterburner: The DotA Aviation budget for 1986/87 has met or excee- ded the Federal government’s previously sta ted aim of achieving full cost recovery. Though the Bosch Report stated that this should be introduced over ten years, in harmony with significant savings in DotA operations, the Department has gone