Year: 1990

MD-11 Completes Longest Trijet Flight: A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 has completed the longest ever flight by a commercial trijet, covering 7,890nm (14,615km) in 16 hours and 35 minutes. The record flight was completed by the forth prototype MD-11, and was part of a three day test mission to test the aircraft’s cruise endurance and navigation

Federal Budget to Bite Further Into Aviation Operations: A little-publicised item in the August Budget has revealed that the Federal Government is to phase out entirely its contribution to the safety contract that it promised when originally establishing the CAA. The commitment to aviation safety operations will be phased out over a period of three

Peace Through Strength It seemed . that the printer’s ink was barely dry on our August issue Reece pleading for sanity before Australia’s defence vote was cut yet again, when out of the woodwork comes the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. The point we were trying to make in that editorial, and the accompanying feature (p.

Peace Through Strength It seemed that the printer’s ink was barely dry on our August issue Reece pleading for sanity before Australia’s defence vote was cut yet again, when out of the woodwork comes the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. The point we were trying to make in that editorial, and the accompanying feature (p. 22),

Flying the Dollar Further What a relief it was to see Bryan Grey’s Compass Airlines float literally take off amidst a sea of doubt from the sceptics. Compass sold all of their available shares within a fortnight of launch and no doubt could have traded double that number if they had only realised the extent

Register Review The largest and heaviest of the new allocations this issue is OJF, the sixth Boeing 7 47-400 for Qantas. The aircraft was rolled out in Qantas colours on 23rd February, had its first flight four weeks later and was delivered non stop from Seattle to Sydney on the 6th May. This content is