Lots to tell you this issue! Winner of our highly successful “Name the Waypoint” competition was R M Grey, 4 Johore Place, East Lindfield, NSW who walked away with a world-wide collection of twenty or so Jeppeson radio-navigation charts. The answer, known to most entrants, was “Gulna”. Alan Muddle of Dungog, NSW recently alerted me

Civil Sar Units Fulfilling Important Role in Search and Rescue A vital but little publicised role in Australia’s Search and Rescue (SAR) operational structure is that played by the Civil SAR Units (CSU). CSUs are organisations which provide contract SAR services to the CAA and are called out for operations only when required. As such

Australian defence scientists have recently lifted part of the top secrecy veil that surrounds the Jindalee over-the horizon radar project. At an exclusive briefing for Australian Aviationat Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) laboratories in Salisbury, near Adelaide, they showed its displays, gave an indication of how accurate it can be at various ranges and

Air Force Suffers in Force Structure Review Although the claims for and against will continue for a long time yet, the Royal Australian Air Force, on the surface, has not come out well under the Government’s revamped and rationalised Defence policy. The fact is that the operating hours of the F-111C strike/reconnaissance jets and the