Raaf Ready Reserve to Be Mainly Air Field Defence Personnel The major commitment by the Royal Australian Air Force to the newly accepted principle of having a Ready Reserve will lie mainly in an Air Force Regiment tasked with air field defence inside the perimeter of bases. Over five years this unit will build up,
Amann Commander Fleet Update In 1987 Amann Aviation imported nine Turbo Commanders to service their recently awarded Coastwatch contract. Though the contract was later withdrawn from Amann, the Commanders remained in Australia and continue to make news as follows. Link Airways based at Wagga Wagga are a new regional operator who commenced services in early
Chinook Update The proposal to hand in the 11C model Boeing CH-47 Chinooks, plus the stock of C model spares held in Australia, in exchange for four D model aircraft plus a support package, seems to be agreed. Senator Ray is understood to have said that if Army will support the proposal and it is
US Naval Tactical Aviation Part III The F-140 and F1A-18E1F The cancellation earlier this year ofthe US Navy’s A-12A ATA program has left a serious gap in USN maritime strike capability (refer previous issue), as the geriatric A-6E is derived from late fifties airframe technology and lacks the aerodynamic performance and stealth capability to effectively
Hawker Seahawk Commodore Norman Lee continues his series of articles on aircraft he flew during his service with the Fleet AirArm. There is an old saying in aviation that if it looks right it will fly right; never was this truer than in the case of the Seahawk. It would be one of the prettiest
It’s probably not unreasonable to suggest that the 1960s was not a golden age for British airliners, at least in the commercial sense. The three main projects of the era – the Trident, One Eleven and VC10 – could be described as modest successes at best; even the most produced of them, the short range