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Dealing with the pressures of flying Every pilot has experienced an in-flight incident of some sort, small or large they are a known risk factor in aviation. I am happy to say a much fewer number have had to manage an accident. The day-to-day safety and career based stresses of being flight crew however, are

When a RAAF Orion crew answered the (SAR) call In any military flying career, there are days that stand out as special. Days on which you are given the opportunity to be part of something bigger, that define you as an aviator. Sometimes, these days are shrouded in secrecy and the details are classified. But

If avgeeks had to visit the aviation equivalent of Mecca, surely Oshkosh is it! The countryside around Oshkosh, Wisconsin has been rolled level over the millennia by ancient glaciers, and today is so green and so flat that the only discernible variations in elevation come from small pockets of thick woodland, or man-made grain silos

From “Emergency” to “Strategic Reserve” The On Target column in September AustAvn outlined how the RAAF began what was to become a longstanding Australian engagement in South-East Asia. It commenced with Australia’s involvement in the Malayan Emergency in June 1948, which was indeed a war although a war by a different name. The Malayan Emergency

One ADFA cadet’s unconquered dream to become a pilot, despite losing his left hand in a road accident From a young age Nathan Parker dreamed of flying Hornets for the RAAF and was well on his way to doing just that when a road accident took his left hand. But returning to the Australian Defence

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