For the first time aircraft from the Temora Aviation Museum will be on show at the Avalon Airshow next month, as the airshow celebrates the 90th anniversary of the RAAF. Temora’s (RAAF owned) CAC Sabre plus its Lockheed Hudson, Gloster Meteor and Spitfire Mk V III will be among the warbirds on display at Avalon.
Two RAF Harrier GR.9s visited Dunsfold Park aerodrome in the UK on November 18 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first untethered hover by the Harrier’s prototype, the P1127. The 50th anniversary visit was attended by more than 100 special guests including two of the original test pilots, Duncan Simpson and John Farley. This
The AH-64D Apache’s Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (M-TADS/PNVS) is to receive an upgrade after Lockheed Martin was awarded a US$65m (A$66m) four year contract to address “obsolescence issues and reliability and capability gaps.” “The Modernized DSA replaces vintage 30 year old hardware,” said US Army Apache Sensors Product Manager Lt Col
The fourth Rathmines Catalina Festival will be held on October 23 to help raise funds to restore and base the Cataling Flying Memorial’s Catalina VH-CAT at Rathmines. The festival will include entertainers, flypasts and landings from seaplanes, Tiger Moths and other light aircraft as well as an aerobatic display from a Pitts Special. In addition,
The organisers of the Wings over Wairarapa airshow in New Zealand have announced that it will take place again over the weekend of January 29-31 2011 at Hood Aerodrome in Masterton, near Wellington. “Wings Over Wairarapa 2011 will really see this event come of age. Now in its 12th year we are expecting over 50,000