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Red Bull Australia has announced the local winners of its 2021 Red Bull Paper Wings paper plane-making Competition, with three Aussies soon bound for Austria.
The two planes – a Mirage fighter A3-55 and a Winjeel trainer A85-403 – were restored by members of the Static Display Aircraft Support Section at RAAF Base Amberley.
The attraction also signalled work will restart on completing its new $14.3 million, 400-tonne steel roof and light show projects.
An ATSB investigation has revealed the pilot of a Cessna Grand Caravan that crashed into the ocean near Japan in September 2018 was incapacitated, possibly from hypoxia.
Bad weather and pre-flight planning are set to be the focus of the Australian Transport Bureau's investigation into the crash of an amateur-built Wittman Tailwind on 12 January that killed two brothers on board.
This story from the Australian Aviation archives is from October 2011, when Thierry Moïsse wrote about aviation's role in broadcasting the Tour de France.
