Year: 1990

Will Aeroflot Be Privatised Before Qantas? The Labor Party’s wafer thin March election victory may have been good news for the party but, beneath the veneer of confidence displayed for the media, lies a major battle between the various factions over that perennial ALP bogey man – privatisation. The PM set the pace within days

Capitol Airlines Defers Launch: Blaming a downturn in the Australian economy combined with a lack of viable terminal facilities, Capitol Airlines’ joint managing director, Mr Vic Dungca announced in early May that Capitol would defer its launch by at least six months and may well scrap the pro- ject entirely. Mr Dungca considered that the

Sentinel Changes to Piston Powerplant: The Seabird Aviation Sentinel has commenced flight trials with the British Emdair piston engine in place of the Norton rotary that has been used previously. Primary reason for the change was that full international aviation standard certification had still not been achieved on the Norton, while noise and overheating problems

Italy and Spain Buy Harrier: The US Navy, Italy and Spain have negotiated a Memorandum of Understanding covering the joint purchase of up to 100 McDonnell Douglas/BAe Harrier Il Plus S/VTOL strike aircraft, a more capable development of the current AV-8B Harrier Il fitted with multimode Hughes APG-65 radar which enable the aircraft to engage

Boeing Delivers 6,000th Jetliner: Boeing delivered its 6,000th jetliner, a 767-200 for Britannia Airways, on 10 April. The first Boeing commercial jetliner, a four engined 707-120, was delivered on 15 August 1958 to Pan American World Airways. Currently, 5,319 Boeing jetliners are in the inventory of 444 owners based in 124 countries. The fleet of

 Aerospatiale and British Aerospace Agree to Develop Concorde Successor: The basis of the team that developed the original Concorde SST, Aerospatiale and British Aerospace, signed an historic agreement on May 9 that will see them initiating the formal process of developing an eventual ‘son of Concorde”. The proposed SST would seat roughly double the number