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Kittyhawk Bent At Coolangatta, Old on 15 March, Col Pay’s Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk, VH-KTH, suffered damage when the right gear leg folded back on landing. The pilot, Ken Howard, was not injured. While the reason for the gear leg collapse is as yet unknown, it is understood that the wing and prop were damaged in
Airbus Industrie Plans Strong Performance Into Next Century Airbus Industrie has now entered its third decade of operation, having taken twenty years to realise an operating profit. It is now set to tackle the coming two decades with a mix of both current and new products to satisfy every niche of the world jetliner market.
Airports Sell-off Fears Jim Scott, the chief executive of Air New Zealand, has sounded a warning over moves to privatise the country’s international airports. There were fears, he said, that New Zealand’s international airports – Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch would be sold as going concerns. ‘The sale of trading enterprises to a particular purchaser, generally,
50 Years Ago… June 1- Crete. The last evacuations of Anzac and British troops are carried out during the night. For those left behind the only choices are to surrender or carry out guerrilla warfare from the hills. The Allies have lost 14,572 men consisting of 8,200 British, 3,376 Australian and 2,996 NZ, not including
Building commercial aircraft has always been a risky business. Betting the company is the standard high stakes gamble every time a manufacturer develops a plane. But airframe builders have never faced as much uncertainty as now. And it is not over such a simple question as the chances of recovering multi-billion dollar research costs on
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Raising the Bar in Commercial Laundry: How Rinse & Repeat Is Redefining Service for Aviation
Raising the Bar in Commercial Laundry: How Rinse & Repeat Is Redefining Service for Aviation
UPRT Australia- Transforming Aviation’s Greatest Risk into Its Greatest Asset
UPRT Australia- Transforming Aviation’s Greatest Risk into Its Greatest Asset
