Year: 1990

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Airspeed Oxford Commodore Norman Lee continues his series of articles on aircraft he flew during his service with the Fleet Air Arm. After we had completed the Wirraway phase we moved onto the Oxford. . . This was a twin-engined training aircraft built mainly of wood and which first flew in 937. It had been

On 1 August Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) announced its new airspace management proposal, a proposal which will radically overhaul the Australian airspace management system by replacing it with one based on the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) model. Although still labelled a proposal, the CAA has already decided to adopt the ICAO airspace classification, basically

••• And I Thought I Could Flyon Instruments There’s an old saying that truth is stranger than fiction. Well, some might think that’s stretching it a bit if you’re going to take it literally, but after what happened to me, I’d say it was an understatement. I was an unrestricted private pilot with over 100

The aerial defence of northern Australia was once again tested during exercise Pitch Black 90 conducted from Darwin and Tindal RAAF Bases from 23rd to 27th July. The exercise was preceded by a short ‘working up period’ with visiting forces and a week of DACT (dissimilar air combat) training was conducted after the end of

McDonnell Douglas DC-10 The sales pitch put forward for the DC-10 declared that it was the machine for all air routes from 300 to 5,000 miles {483-8,050km) in length and could replace all other aircraft as long as the volume of traffic required a machine which could move 250/370 passengers at a time. This particularly