Year: 1990

A very significant subject I have been meaning to discuss with you for some time now is aircraft enhancement of radio signals, which first came to my notice about six or seven years back. At first I was very sceptical, after initially reading an article in a ham radio magazine about amateurs working UHF 432MHz

Sydney Heliport Ready Early Next Year The Helicopter Association of Australia (HAA) expects to open Sydney’s badly needed and long awaited Sydney Central Business District Heliport early next year. Situated on abandoned wharfs at Pyrmont, an inner city suburb undergoing gentrification, the heliport has tacit approval from the State Government. The support will probably be

Federal Government Bails Out of Airport Funding The Federal Government has outlined it’s withdrawal from airport maintenance and development funding. In a nutshell, the Federal Department of Transport and Communications (DoTC) is pulling out of aerodromes which are funded as Commonwealth airports or those part funded under the Airport Local Ownership Plan (ALOP), of which

Fairey Firefly Commodore Norman Lee continues his series of articles on aircraft he flew during his 33 year service with the RAN and RN Fleet Air Arm. Following completion of flying training at Point Cook, we Navy trainees were only granted provisional wings as we had yet to qualify in the art of deck landing;

The Messerschmitt Has Arrived A Messerschmitt is a Messerschmitt unless it is a four seat passenger version known asa Bf-108. Recently one of these rare machines was imported into Australia from Canada. Painted up as a single seat fighter the aircraft is sure to attract a lot of attention wherever it goes. It is understood

Rnzaf 727 Flies Mercy Mission The RNZAF’s 22 year old Boeing 727 returned to New Zealand early last month (October) after ferrying 1,300 refugees from the Middle East to India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Philippines. It was an unscheduled exercise for the Air Force’s VIP aircraft which had originally set off for London with