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A massive ten engined 8-36 strategic bomber with its RF-84 companion. Just one of the ultra large aircraft examined in Giants.
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Dr Allan Hawke has taken up the position of Defence’s Deputy Secretary Strategic and Intelligence, replacing Dr Paul Dibb. Brian Leggett has been appointed SITA’s Assistant General Manager Sales and Marketing for Australasia and the South Pacific. Bob Mainerd has been named Airport Mgr Sydney by Northwest Airlines. John Mant, a partner of Phillips Fox, solicitors, Sydney, has been appointed to the Board of the CAA. Wayne Newell has been appointed Marketing/Planning Mgr for Australian Airlines. Peter Ryan has been appointed Eastern Australia Airlines General Mgr. Capt Alan Terrell has succeeded Buck Brooksbank as chairman of the CAA’s Australian Aviation Advisory Committee. Wes Willoughby has retired from the CAA to establish his own consulting business.
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Hawker de Havilland has reported preliminary accounts for the first six months of 1991 which show an operating profit before tax of $5m compared to $7. 1m for the same period 1990. Sales were $122. 9m (down from $126. 4 same period 1990); however the order book remains strong at over $600m. After abnormals (industrial action, redundancies etc. ) nett profit was close to a break even result, compared to a $5. 7m profit for the same period 1990. Boeing recorded net earnings of $US763m (up from $US689m same period 1989) from sales of $US13. 9bn ($US13. 4bn same period 1989) for the first half of 1991. The improved results over 1989 were due primarily to increased commercial aircraft sales and lower defence and space business operating losses, partially offset by 777 development costs. The company sold just 113 commercial jets (down from 212) and 13 Dash 8s (up from 8); it delivered 4 military 7078, 104 7378, 32 7478, 42 7578, 32 7678 and 38 Dash 8s (total 252, up from 216).
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A massive ten engined B-36 strategic bomber with its RF-84 companion. Just one of the ultra large aircraft examined in Giants.
Giants:
AVI Another of the AVI Strange Planes Series, Giants focuses on the world of extra large aircraft, disasters and successes alike.
Aircraft included encompass the massive airships of the twenties and thirties, which were actually the largest flying machines ever built, the lumbering Barting Bomber of the twenties; Howard Hughes’s Spruce Goose, complete with some new in-cockpit footage of the man himself lifting the giant into the air on its brief but legendary flight; the ten engined B-36, the last of the piston engined bombers; the Boeing Stratocruiser, the first large two deck commercial airliner plus some very interesting footage on the flying boats that pioneered civil air transport prior to WW2.
Also detailed are the variety of Guppies that stemmed from the Boeing Stratocruiser design and even today form a vital link in the building of every Airbus jetliner; the Douglas C-124 Globemaster, Convair Constitution, the military transport derivative of the B-36; the B-52 Stratofortress, possibly one of the longest lived front line combat aircraft in his- tory plus the Antonov Ruslan and its US counterpart, the C-5 Galaxy.
An interesting one hour tape that both informs and entertains. Available in VHS only direct from Australian Aviation, PO Box 3105, Weston Creek, ACT 2611 for $39. 95 +$5. 00 påp. Credit card orders taken on (06) 2881677 or fax (06) 288 2021.
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