Marc Joel Atrero

A simple equation, learnt early in every aviator’s career states that:”Lift = Coefficient of Lift x ¼ x the density of the air mass x the Velocity squared x the surface area = Weight. ” Three of the four variables are used to control an aircraft in flight; they are of course coefficient of lift

Ct-4 Airtrainer Auction The auction of the former RAAF CT-4 Airtrainers, held at Bankstown on Saturday, May 22, was anevent unlike any other seen in recent years and one not likely to be seen again. With the closure of No 1 FTS at Point Cook, the CT-4 Airtrainers became surplus to requirements as the RAAF

Australian Scenery A Boost For Microsoft Flight Simulator For those of you who rushed out and bought a copy of Microsoft Flight Simulator 4. 0 (MFS4) after reading about it in the April 93 issue ofAustralian Aviation, I have a treat for you – detailed Australian scenery. Now you qm take off from Bankstown, shoot

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The Fac: How It Is Playing Monopoly With the Aviation Industry Over the previous two hundred years, Australia’s governments built up our transport and trade infrastructure – roads, railways, ports and airports, because they were important to our national development. All ofthem operated at a loss, but they contributed to the profits earned from our

Of all the aircraft ever built it has been said that the Lockheed Constellation is probably the most aesthetically pleasing airliner to have graced the sky. When the Lockheed Constellation prototype made its first flight on January 9, 1943, who would have thought that fiftyyears later not one but two of these fine aircraft would