Ansett International Ansett may finally be on the way to launching an international airline – albeit with a majority New Zealand shareholding. April began as a bad month for Ansett New Zealand. As a result of the $660m purchase of Air New Zealand by the Qantas- Brierley consortium, Ansett NZ stood to lose a large

F-4 Phantoms Inbound The RAAF Museum at Point Cook, Vic is shortly to take delivery of a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom, one of two to go to Museums in Australia. The Phantom destined for Point Cook is understood to be an ex USAF machine that came via the USAF Museum at Wright Patterson Air Force

10 Years Ago • Following the discovery of possible fatigue cracks in two RAAF Canberras at Amberley on 24 July, the 21 aircraft remaining in service were temporarily grounded. The cracks were located in the wing fuselage fittings and all the Canberras are expected to have been inspected within two weeks. • The first fight

Business as Usual? Perhaps the most intriguing feature of the great Domestic Aviation Deregulation debate is the strength of the pervasive attitude among the various Canberra bureaucracies which holds that there will, in effect, be very little change as a result of the October 1990 end of the Two Airlines Agreement. One might expect to