Year: 1990

Difficult Period for Rnzaf The last few weeks have not been the best of times for the Royal New Zealand Air Force. First it had to ground half of its Iroquois helicopter fleet after the discovery of tail fin fatigue cracks,only seven of the 13 being classed as airworthy. Then a few days later, fatigue

National Jet Syst Ems Commence Operations National Jet took delivery of their BAe146-100VH-NJC at Adelaide on June 28th and on July 2nd it commenced operations on contract to Santos. National Jet have taken over the contract previously held by Lloyd Aviation to ferry personnel and equipment from Adelaide and Brisbane to Moomba and Jackson in

Mrs E Plant of Grenfell in NSW related to me the story of an old lady on board a Boeing 747 as a passenger, very very concerned about having to fly out of Sydney at night. She enquired of a female flight attendant . . . “How can the pilot see where he’s going .

50 Years Ago … September 1 – The Battle of Britain continues . . . The Luftwaffe attacks London docks and airfields at Biggin Hill, Detling and Eastchurch. Biggin is so badly damaged that an emergency makeshift operations room is made in a local village shop. Controllers and plotters have to work using a school

10 Years Ago • TAA has accepted its eighteenth and final Boeing 727. Over the past 16 years it has taken delivery of six 727-100s and 12 of the Advanced version of the 727. TAA played a part in the extended range capabilities of the Advanced 200 series when they persuaded Boeing to provide additional

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