Getting Better All The Time de Havilland Canada’s Dash 8 When de Havilland Canada was formed in 1920 few would have expected this fledgling to outlast its Hatfield parent by so long. Through government-prompted mergers within the British aircraft industry, the de Havilland name ceased to adorn British aircraft in 1960. Whilst the name de

Perhaps if more newspaper journalists charged with reporting aviation matters were airband monitors, a lot fewer errors would find their way into the daily newspapers! Some reports concerning a ‘near miss’ between Qantas 44 and Continental 002 over the Tasman must have given the reading public a grossly inaccurate picture of what actually did occur,

McDonnell Douglas MD-11 On the second last day of 1986, the giant McDonnell Douglas Corporation bit the bullet and officially launched the long-mooted successor to the DC-10 – the MD-11 trijet. The airline community had been waiting for the definitive launch of the MD-11 for more than a year and had seen the basic aircraft

May Report a Damning Indictment of Two Airline Policy After almost two years in the making, the Federal Government officially released during early January the results of the May Inquiry. More properly titled, the Independent Review of Economic Regulation of Domestic Aviation, and headed by Mr Thomas May, a distinguished businessman with a vast working