Kangaroo 89 Shaping up as Largest Military Exercise Ever A wide range of RAAF, USAF and Army aircraft will participate in Exercise Kangaroo 89 in northern Australia between July and September, 1989. In the air transport role, the RAAF intends committing a Boeing 707, 8 C-130 Hercules, 8 Caribous and 6 CH-47 Chinooks. The RAAF’s

Deregulation: The United States Experience This series will aim to highlight the opportunities and pitfalls of the deregulated airline industry in Australia. To do that it will show in three installments how the US experience with deregulation is of benefit to us. Firstly, in this issue we will establish the facts about the US airline

10 Years Ago • The Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force is to re-activate its six remaining Grumman S-2A Trackers as a replacement for other S- 2As which have reached their maximum permissible hours. The MSDF is retiring an average of five S-2As annually and the type will have been withdrawn from their service by 1983.

Grumman American’s ‘Aa’ Series The Chief Structural Engineer at Piper at the time once indicated to me that Piper had worked on more than its fair share of ‘potato heads’ – a reference to models that emerged as extensions to existing ones, reflections perhaps on the extent to which the Company exploited the popular Cherokee