OBSERVER’S BOOK OF AIRCRAFT Available from most bookshops, rec retail $5. If you are into aviation and don’t have a copy of the Observer’s Book of Aircraft then you’re not serious. For more than three decades the little 250-plus page Observer’s has been a virtual bible to those people even mildly involved in aviation. The

Avstar Electronic Flight Computer One of the most sophisticated and yet simple-to-use cockpit hand-held computers AADR has seen, in an age where the old circular slide rule is fast becoming a memory, is now on sale in Australia – if you can find one Designed and developed by Jeppesen Sanderson and produced by Texas Instruments

18 May, 1972 MiG-19 F-4B, VF-161, CVW-5, CVA-41. A/C No. NF-110 BuNo 153068 Lt Henry “Bart” Bartholomay Lt Oran Brown MiG-19 F-4B, VF-161, CVW-5, CVA-41. A/C No. NF-105 BuNo 153915 Lt Pat Arwood Lt Mike “Taco” Bell Narration by “Taco” Bell The Midway had been sent to WestPac seven weeks early for this cruise. In

General Dynamics are working to develop a “super” F-161 that on paper would virtually relegate the standard F-16A to second-rate status. The new model, named Scamp (supersonic cruise aircraft modification program), features a new wing profile that effectively doubles wing area and enables a doubling of internal fuel capacity and the number of underwing weapons