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‘The Viscount was the first gas turbine aircraft to operate revenue passenger services’   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 Forgot password? Keep me signed in on this device. If you check this box

‘I thought I heard a tree branch break, but what I had heard was actually my C7 vertebrae shattering’   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 Forgot password? Keep me signed in on this

In this special report, Chris Frame charts how the alien concept of an independent air force grew into a pioneering organisation that not only defended Australia but paved the way for a civil aviation revolution This year marks the centenary for the world’s second oldest independent air force. Established in 1921, the Royal Australian Air

A history of the Australian Army’s aerial reconnaissance ahead of the move to Apache Guardians Development of Australian Army’s aerial reconnaissance capabilities From Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 (1914) to Apache Guardians (2021)  World War I. When World War I commenced in 1914, Australia only had a population of 4.9 million, the same as Queensland in

A Defence Force career in Australia has never really hit the sexy heights of the US Military machine We’ve been swept up in movies such as The Longest Day, Top Gun and Black Hawk Down forever, but a military career never really rubbed off down under as a first choice career path. Along comes a

The events hoping to return this year A mid major international air show cancellations, including the Farnborough International Airshow in July 2020 and the Paris Airshow in July 2021, Australia too saw many of its major aviation events cancelled throughout 2020.  However, thanks to Australia’s successful effort in combating the spread of the COVID-19, and