Year: 1990

Twin Long Ranger at Last A Californian mod shop is doing what many in the industry think should have been done by Bell many years ago, the fitting of two small turbine engines into the JetRanger and LongRanger series of light helicopters. The work is being carried out by Costa Mesa-based Tridair on a Bell

Aerobatics in a Jumbo In February 1985 a Boeing 747SP was flying 300nm NW of San Francisco on a transpacific flight from Taipei to Los Angeles, when its number four engine lost power. In the next four and half minutes, as the crew attempted to relight the engine, the aircraft went into an uncontrolled rolling

Raaf Interest in More F-111s Senior Royal Australian Air Force planners are looking at the prospect of acquiring possible surplus United States Air Force F-111 strike planes as additional attrition aircraft for the under strength Strike/Reconnaissance Group stationed at Amberley in southern Queensland. The Group currently has 22 aircraft, which is down two on the

Bob Stevens, who is resident cartoonist for the excellent ‘Air Force’ (US) magazine, related a true story in one of his cartoons which featured in the August 1989 edition of AA. It concerned a USAF T-43, also known to the people who fly and maintain them as ‘FLUF’ . . . fat little ugly feller!

At the outbreak of war in September, 1939, there were about 450 Australians serving in the RAF in various parts of the world. Most were operational pilots on special Short Service Commissions. At the Imperial Conference of 1923, the UK proposed offering four year, short service commissions in the RAF to RAAF officers who had

Airline News Deliveries of aircraft to Ansett New Zealand, Australia, IPEC and Qantas together with changes to the Australian domestic charter fleet are the main topics of interest. Ansett New Zealand took delivery of their fifth and final BAe146-300 ZK-NZJ msn E-3147 at Christchurch on February 24th. In October 1989 Ansett New Zealand leased BAe146-200GC