Year: 1990

Sudden Slump in Domestic Airline Travel: In an apparent response to Australia’s softening economy, there has been a sudden and largely unexplained slump in domestic airline activity. Speaking at the National Aviation Press Club in Sydney during late June, Mr John Schaap, Australian Airlines chief executive, noted that domestic airlines were experiencing a noticeable slowdown

Transisco to Invest in Piper: Transisco Industries plans to invest in financially troubled Piper Aircraft Corporation and take over sales and distribution of aftermarket Piper aircraft parts. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this article, please login. Username or Email Password Forgot

More Soviet Defence Reductions: The United States’ Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) have concluded that as the Soviet economy is in a state of “near crisis”, the nation’s defence spending will reduce (in real terms) both this year and next. It is estimated that in 1989 Soviet defence spending dropped 4-5%

Growing Old Gracefully: The Fokker F28 twinjet airliner is wearing well in its middle age, according to an Airworthiness Assurance Task Force report, a body which was set up to review modification, corrosion and structural maintenance of older airliners in the wake of the Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 front upper fuselage failure. The evaluation revealed

Expenditure and is the only possible option for Qantas. . . The airline’s survival as an international carrier is at stake unless immediate action to raise public equity to satisfy Qantas’ $6bn re-equipment requirement over the next six years is taken immediately. ” The Government/Opposition stance on the question of Qantas privatisation therefore appears, for

10 Years Ago • A Douglas Dakota has been donated by the RAAF to the Berlin Airlift Memorial Museum in memory of the work performed by RAAF crews during the 1948-49 Berlin Airlift. Dakota A65-69 was flown from RAAF Butterworth on 16 June and it arrived at Gutersloh on 20 June. It was one of