Repairing Damaged Aircraft Is a Difficult and Expensive Business Aircraft damage is becoming more difficult to detect and repair, as well as becoming more than ever critical to aircraft safety, and the world’s airworthiness authorities are increasingly concerned at the diminishing resources available to monitor properly the maintenance practices of the airlines. These are problems

During Time of Change Haaf Air Power Studies Centre Performing a Vital Role The RAAF is presently undergoing some profound internal changes in the processes it employs to train its personnel. This has been most visible in the changes which are taking place in undergraduate pilot training (refer p. 22 Oct 91 AA}, however the

New Tax on Aircraft Owners Another Blow to Aviation Following on from the Government’s reneging on its agreement with the CAA to fund the so called Safety Contract, discussions have been taking place with industry to determine just how the shortfall should be funded. The original agreement was that the Government would fully fund the

Westland Wessex Mk31A Commodore Norman Lee continues his series of articles on aircraft he flew during his service with the Fleet Air Shortly after my conversion to helicopters I was posted to No 1 Wessex course at NAS Nowra; the members of this course were destined to form the first front line Wessex squadron on