Year: 1990

Jean Baker of ‘Plane Talk’ from the excellent American magazine ‘Monito(ing Times’ is now our resident regular ‘Airbands’ correspondent in the USA. Jean tells me that an extra one megahertz of band space has been allocated to the VHF airband in the US by the Federal Communications Commission. The aero comms band now finishes at

Second Caa Regulatory Review Encompasses Timely Recommendations During late May the second report of the Air Safety Regulation Review Task Force was released. T he report is without a doubt one of the most important in Australianaviationhistory, for it has finally documented in clear and concise terms just what is either right or wrong with

RTM322 Engines for EH101 Chopper The Royal Navy has selected the Rolls-Royce Turbomeca RTM322 engine to power its EH1 0 1 helicopters. Rolls-Royce Turbomeca has been awarded the contract to supply and support production standard engines for the EH10 1 development program, and also to carry out the RTM322 installation and integration design work. The

De Havilland Tiger Moth Join the Navy and fly. So said the full page advertisement in the Melbourne Sun in the winter of 1947. Without giving it a second thought I applied, was selected, and 33 years later retired as the Commanding Officer of the Naval Air Station at Nowra. In between those years I

Ferry Flights Perhaps a sign of the times but it appears that most of the interesting aircraft are ferrying out of our area to other parts of the world. Grumman Mallard VH-JAW of Helicopter Resources has been parked atTyabb, Victoria since May 1989, while being advertised for sale. As N73AH the Mallard departed Tyabb for

It’s Amazing What a Bounce Can Do I There was no way I could tell this story at the time; I would have done in my job and my career- as well as ruining the (probably undeserved) reputation of my captain. But they say confession is good for the soul. So having finally hung up