20CU farewells the classic Hornet I still remember the first time I flew the F/A-18A solo as a student at 2OCU, the Royal Australian Air Force’s operational conversion unit for single-seat fighter pilots. I was on 1/97 conversion course, the first ab-initio course to run after FCI Course and needless to say the testosterone-charged warfighting

A troubled start to the new decade Putting out bushfires’ has an obvious, literal meaning. At the time of writing, Australian local, State and Federal Government and private sector agencies, with help from overseas, were involved in the biggest fire response operation ever conducted, across all mainland states and territories. Whole communities had been burnt