Year: 1990

Kitty Hawk News The Col Pay P-40E Kittyhawk has flown. On December 15 Col’s P-40E, appropriately registered VH-KTH made a brief ten minute flight at Scone, NSW, followed by an hour long flight the next day. Col Pay who made the first flights reports that the Curtiss handles “Okay”. It was an historic day as

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Douglas DC-8 Part I The 1950s ushered in a new type of passenger transport that changed the face of air travel forever and with which the world became intently fascinated. The Europeans initiated the rush toward jet airliners with the likes of the British Comet and the Soviet Tu-104. The Europeans themselves had some success

The pilots’ strike is still providing excellent airband listen!ng, what with the occasional snide remark made to our band of v1s1ting replacement domestic airmen by air traffic controllers and other pilots!But all the interesting stuff isn’t limited to aircrew and ATC staff. Some good one-liners have come from the mouths of passengers, such as overseas

Corporate Aviation 1990 The start of 1990 is not expected to be a good one for corporate aviation in Australia. The large number of corporate collapses has caused a number of corporations to sell their aircraft and some of those being squeezed by the general business downturn are reviewing their position. This is reflective, however,

Mooney 201SE Designed before its time, the Mooney now comes of age When Al Mooney designed the single seat Mite back in the 1940s, he created an aircraft that had two distinctive features. One was the unique tail with no sweepback on the leading edge of the fin or stabiliser. The second was the concept