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March 16, 2017 0 commentFlying the Piper Cub The only aircraft that has been in production for more than eighty seven years, well maybe, is the Cub. Maybe not quite continuous production or by the same manufacturer but the fact that the Cub series has been around for all that time just goes to show that there is continuing
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March 16, 2017 0 commentFrom its new purpose-built Aeromedical Crewing Excellence (ACE) Training Centre at Bankstown Airport, Toll Helicopters is using high fidelity simulation and virtual reality training devices to best prepare its crews and NSW Ambulance paramedics and doctors to save lives across southern NSW and the ACT for the next decade and beyond. On January 10, in
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March 16, 2017 0 commentSchiebel Camcopter S-100 wins Navy VTOL UAS deal The Department of Defence has awarded Austria’s Schiebel Group a contract to supply its Camcopter S-100 to meet the Royal Australian Navy’s interim vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial system (UAS) requirement. Signed in late December, the contract fulfils a request for tender (RFT) for Navy
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March 16, 2017 0 commentAir Force’s information age is touching down I shouldn’t have been if I had thought about, but I was quite surprised to see fuselage sections for no fewer than six RAAF F-35s on the production line at Northrop Grumman’s factory in Palmdale, California during a visit there in late January. For over two years now
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March 16, 2017 0 commentA big year ahead for the AAA and its members With the first two months of 2017 already behind us, there is no doubt that this will be another incredibly busy and eventful year for the airport industry, and indeed aviation more broadly. One of 2017’s hottest topics is the development of the Western Sydney
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March 16, 2017 0 commentRather a large New Allocations section this issue as it covers two months instead of the usual one. Five new types are shown with by far the most interesting being the Historical Aircraft Preservation Society’s (HARS) Convair Samaritan TAA. During WWII Convair played a leading role in wartime production of the Liberator, Catalina, Vengeance and
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