McDonnell Douglas DC-9 Part Twenty-Seven in a Series Examining the Airliners That Established Civil Aviation in Australia As Australia enters this bicentennial year, many interesting events have been planned to highlight notable occasions and facets of our nation’s history. The importance of aviation will be underlined in some truly memorable events. Amongst the various aircraft

Special Notice to All Early Newsagency Purchasers of Our Book “Australia’s Military Aircraft” Aerospace Publications Pty Ltd, publishers of Australia’s Military Aircraft, wish to advise that they have withdrawn all original copies of this book from both newsagency and direct mail sale throughout Australia. The recall has been undertaken due to the book not being

Boom, Boom, Boom: Let’s hope the stock market crash doesn’t affect the extremely rosy situation that is international air travel in 1987. Provisional figures released recently indicate that the number of international passengers travelling aboard US airlines is up a tremendous 25% on 1986. This is a reflection of the low value of the greenback

Mathias Rust’s Cessna Saga Continues: What by now must surely be the world’s most famous Cessna 172 Skyhawk is taking on a new life as a mobile advertising vehicle for a West German perfume distributor. The Skyhawk was flown back to Hamburg in October following its May foray to Moscow’s Red Square and was sold