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10 Years Ago • Qantas operated its last scheduled Boeing 707 service on 25 March when VH-EAG flew QF44 from Auckland to Sydney. The following final exchange between the aircraft and Sydney Tower summed it all up. QF44 “For your information this will be the last scheduled landing of a Boeing 707 in Qantas service”.

John Stackhouse Interviews Alan Terrell Qantas is rapidly reshaping its attitude towards such traditional policy areas as the recruitment and training of both aircrew and engineers alike. To learn more about where our national airline is headed in this regard and also what it plans from its 767 twinjet Extended Range Overwater Operations fleet (EROPS)

Ministerial Meeting During December we were granted an audience with Mr Gary Punch, Minister for Aviation Support, to discuss a range of concerns that we had previously put to the Minister in writing. Although we had wide ranging discussions it is clear that the Minister is getting very biased advice from his bureaucrats and consequently

AEW & AWACS Part I – The Issues Kim Beazley’s decision to proceed with the acquisition of Airborne Early Warning aircraft for the RAAF is one which informed observers will all agree to be long overdue. This journal argued strongly for the acquisition of AEW aircraft a half a decade ago and needless to say

Cathay Planning to Retain Mantle of World’s Most Profitable Airline Cathay Pacific, the world’s most profitable airline on a per capita Revenue Passenger Kilometre basis, is aiming to retain this impressive mantle in the years ahead via new equipment, enhanced standards of service and a tapping of the vast and expansive Asian travel market. Cathay

In the early part of this decade when it first became apparent that future airliners would have electronic instrumentation, fold down tables in place of a control column, a sidestick control and be virtually flown by a computer, many expressed a certain amount of chagrin. It will be the end of true seat-of-the-pants pilots they