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Australian aviation history has always been created by people most of us would define as rebels. In our microchip-technology age we all feel that the life and times of real pioneers and rebels are all but overwhelmed by a stifling bureaucracy. Fortunately for Australia, and all those real people who actually love aviation, there is
On the last day of October in 1950, a very small single-seat aircraft rose from the dry South Australian soil of Woomera. It was the maiden flight of the Government Aircraft Factories Project C Pika, an aboriginal word for “The Flyer”, and was the first jet aircraft to be designed and built in Australia. Two
(Barney Fernandes is the Managing Director of the Australian Flying Training School, which is a government-approved Integrated Pilot Training School). The market in pilot training for the Free World has traditionally belonged to Britain and America. It so happened that after World War II, private enterprises in these two countries, with support from their respective
On December 28, 1978 a United Airlines DC-8 jetliner encounters suspected undercarriage problems while preparing to land at Portland International Airport, Oregon, USA. While the crew attempted to rectify the problem the DC-8 was orbited at a low altitude with flaps and wheels down. This resulted in an abnormally high fuel burn rate which was
Charles had always been something of a shy chap. He was your average pilot, nothing showy but workmanlike and a young man who took his flying seriously – until the day he killed himself . . . The trouble with Charles was that he not only killed himself. He demolished, quite utterly and finally, three
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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
