The Future of Hawker de Havilland Rollo Kingsford-Smith, the recently retired Chairman of Hawker de Havilland, used to remind his senior executives regularly that “Change is inevitable; successful businesses are those where management recognises the inevitability of change and takes appropriate initiatives to benefit from change rather than becoming a victim of it”. Hawker de
Hawker de Havilland 60th Anniversary Special Feature The Early History of Hawker de Havilland a Cavalcade of Aviation! These days, when a person in this country reaches the big six-zero, 60 years of age, he or she knows that the downhill run has really begun in earnest. Retirement is imminent or has already happened, the
Hawker de Havilland 60th Anniversary Special Feature International Manufacturing, a Major Hoh Success Story In today’s highly competitive international aerospace environment, any company that can claim almost half a billion dollars worth of manufacturing subcontracts must have done something very right indeed. That’s the record of Hawker de Havilland at Bankstown since its first tentative
Federal Airports Corporation Set To Inherit Ksa Debacle Decisions by the cash starved Federal Government over the next few months about how much money it will kick into the kitty for the new Federal Airports Corporation (FAC) will decide the level of landing charges at Commonwealth controlled airports from July 1. Under the FAC’s Act,
Lloyd’s to Challenge Kendell’s With Mohawks: Lloyd Aviation is to import four ex-PanAm Express (nee Ransome) Mohawk 298 aircraft to challenge Kendell Airline’s dominance of the South Australian regional market. The move will sign an increase in capacity of 50% for Lloyds as it replaces its three Bandeirantes and a Cessna 402 with the four
General Aviation Could Be Hit Again for Additional Airport Revenue: At the 15th Ansett Travel & Transport Writer’s Seminar held in Adelaide during early April, Mr Bill Swingler, Chief Executive of the Federal Airports Corporation (refer story p17 this issue) stated that virtually all GA airports were losing money and that their performance would have