Year: 1990

Airline News There is plenty of activity in this sector of the market as the domestic airlines head towards Deregulation. Eastwest take delivery of their first BAe 146-300 and start to rollover their Fokker F28 fleet while Australian Airlines lease out two of their Boeing 737-476s. Eastwest took delivery of their first two BAe 146-300

10 Years Ago The US General Aviation Manufacturers Association has reported that sales for the January to June period of this year increased to $US1. 152m compared with $US1. 068m for the same period in 1979. A disappointing aspect was the decline in aircraft delivered to 6,286 compared with 8,863 last year. The last revenue

All in a Day’s Work Air Safety This month’s air safety feature offers the third experience in our trilogy on the theme of illicit flying in cloud. Next month we look at the hidden hazards of ‘flying on clocks’ from quite a different angle – a well-planned single engined /FR flight that nearly went horribly

There may be tough times ahead for the Australian economy but the continued growth of the Australian warbird movement does not reflect this. Since our last warbirds register was produced in 1987 the number of aircraft listed has doubled and if one is to believe even a portion of the stories about the number of

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The Boeing 767 Part I Part Thirty-Two in a Series Examining the Airliners That Established Civil Aviation in Australia The Boeing 767 has gone from strength to strength in Australian service. First employed by Ansett as their flagship on domestic operations it has fulfilled an even more crucial role for Qantas in giving them an