Australia may not have operated an aircraft carrier in 35 years but the RAN’s two amphibious assault ships boast very substantial aviation capabilities Forty years ago, the navy’s new aircraft carrier to replace the venerable HMAS Melbourne appeared to be on the way and what better aircraft to equip it with than the revolutionary Sea

There’s no ‘I’ in passenger I recently climbed a mountain. Well, really it was just a very big hill with a carved path, stairways and handrails. However, like a mountain, it boasted spectacular views from the peak from the land to the sea. As one would rightly expect, such breathtaking scenery often positions the viewer

The 1977 annual of Australian Aviation & Defence Review was a groundbreaking publication for this then 11-year-old writer. I had already well and truly been bitten by the aviation bug, and had for a couple of years been writing away to aerospace companies requesting brochures and posters of their various fast jet products, most of

New analysis points to MH370’s final resting place The Malaysian Government can no longer evade its responsibilities to locate MH370 after the dramatic revelations last month from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau that identify an almost precise location of the missing jet. The further refined drift analysis by CSIRO scientist David Griffin and Peter Oke