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Traffic Soars in Record Sept Quarter: Continuing the boom that has been triggered by deregulation, Australa’s domestic airlines again broke several traffic records in the recently completed September quarter. During the quarter the airlines carried 4. 7 million passengers, an all time record. This enabled them to set another record with 15. 4m passengers being

An Overdue Event? This months Recce concerns that very emotive subject of air safety. Indeed it is difficult to realistically write about this subject without some quarters of the industry taking you to task for unnecessarily frightening their bread and butter, the fare paying passenger. Whilst this is understandable it still doesn’t do any of

Register Review Quite a large number of additions to the register this issue compared with recent months, including a few very interesting aircraft. Starting at the lighter end of the scale, three moreKavanagh balloons appear, EEG, LPR and LPS. This locally produced balloon is very popular in Australia and overseas interest is high especially in

I am sitting here in my Sydney office surrounded by my receivers, with one in particular occupying pride of place amongst the herd. It’s the Signal Communications Corporation R-535 VHF/UHF aviation band receiver, sent to me recently by Mike Faulkner from Hawker Pacific Skyshop for evaluation. Well I have evaluated, and have reached the following

Air New Zealand’s New CEO A former engineering apprentice with the airline, 52 year old Jim McCrea is today Air New Zealand’s chief executive officer. Mr McCrea, who joined TEAL in 1956, has been acting CEO since the sudden resignation of Jim Scott in April. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login

Anyone who has slogged through an ATPL Flight Planning exam or rotated a prayer wheel in the local flight briefing office knows what a time consuming and potentially error ridden exercise it can be. Modern airline operations simply cannot afford the time and risks involved and, with ever rocketing fuel costs, the need to order