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April 15, 2011 0 commentQantas Group News in This Issue We Can Report Qantas Taking Delivery of an A380-800, Qantas/jetconnect Three 737-800s, Express Freight Australia a 767-300f, and Jetstar Adding an A330-200. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this article, please login. Username or Email Password
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April 14, 2011 0 commentNew Harvard Import But … A new Harvard has been imported … but not to fly, at least not in the short term. The recent import by Tyabb, Vic. based The Old Aeroplane Company is an SNJ-5 Bu51788, c/n 88-14642. It was manufactured on 9 August 1943. Navy logbooks indicate that this aircraft participated in
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April 13, 2011 0 commentLooking up and out Whether through the grainy footage from actual combat or the Hollywood hype of Top Gun, most have seen the tumbling gun sights and symbology as a fighter rolls about the horizon in the midst of a dogfight. To the pilot, these numbers, arrows and symbols are critical flight information projected into
Read moreRAAF responds with Yasi Assist
April 12, 2011 0 commentThreatened with the onslaught of Cyclone Yasi, elements of the RAAF were on hand to assist residents in north Queensland, as four specially equipped aircraft of the Air Lift Group (ALG) evacuated a total of 173 Cairns hospital patients to Brisbane on February 1. It was a night often filled with drama, suspense and fatigue,
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April 11, 2011 0 commentFlying the new Cessna Citation CJ4. The recent Australian International Air Show played host to a number of new kids on the block, but few were fresher than the Cessna Citation CJ4 which was on tour in Australia with Cessna’s Australian representative, Aeromil Pacific. Only the third aircraft of its type off the Wichita production
Read moreMaking the 747 Incredible, Again?
April 10, 2011 0 comment“I love it and the higher the price of fuel goes the better it looks.” While Richard Aboulafia, noted analysts with the Washington DC Teal Group is a great rap for the 747-8I, Boeing has struggled, up till now, to get airlines to think quite in those terms about the latest version of the venerable
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