Beating the dogs! How do you keep souvenir hunters and adventurous little boys out of a paddock housing hundreds of stored Mustangs, Hurricanes, Mosquitos, Liberators, Spitfires, etc, etc. The first thing you do is to install a stout fence and have savage guard dogs patrolling. The problem is that quite often the dogs get excited
The recent ‘leaking’ of the Federal Cabinet’s interest in selling Australian Airlines provided an interesting insight into what may well in time pass as the inevitable. In the current financial environment, the Australian Government is examining every option by which it may boost its revenue. Selling off various governmental agencies, such as Telecom, Medibank, Australia
A comprehensive review of pilot licencing is seen as one of the basic elements of the Coalition Parties’ aviation policy, one which will make learning to fly and maintaining your licence a much simpler and hopefully, cheaper, exercise. The policy document outlines a general review of licencing, as well as specific aims such as the
Introducing The ABAA This being the inaugural issue of Corporate Contrails, we felt it appropriate to inform readers about the inception and aims of the Australian Business Aircraft Association. To many of you this will be history but we would like to restate the facts for the benefit of future members. The idea of forming
10 Years Ago The RN Commando Carrier HMS Bulwark is to be brought from reserve and placed in an anti-submarine role owing to the delay in completion of HMS Invincible which was launched in May. This was considered necessary as when the Ark Royal is withdrawn from service at the end of 1978, the only