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Sleep dreams

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From hub buster to jetlag buster Anyone who has ever made the journey between Australia to Europe knows the feeling of either being unable to stay awake at three o’clock in the afternoon or staring at the bedroom wall at 300AM eyes wide open. The 24 hours of flying, the up to 11 hours’ time

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Avoiding wirestrikes

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AAAA launches new industry-supported powerline safety program AAAA recently launch a major safety initiative aimed squarely at improving aviation safety around powerlines and is being joined by an increasing number of safety focussed supporters. Long term safety partner Essential Energy has been joined by Ergon Energy, QBE Aviation Insurance and CASA as foundation safety partners

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Replacing the replacements

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The 1977 annual of Australian Aviation & Defence Review was a groundbreaking publication for this then 11-year-old writer. I had already well and truly been bitten by the aviation bug, and had for a couple of years been writing away to aerospace companies requesting brochures and posters of their various fast jet products, most of

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Malaysia must act

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New analysis points to MH370’s final resting place The Malaysian Government can no longer evade its responsibilities to locate MH370 after the dramatic revelations last month from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau that identify an almost precise location of the missing jet. The further refined drift analysis by CSIRO scientist David Griffin and Peter Oke

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Same tube, different decade

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Passenger experience, 40 years back Looking back forty years, it’s astounding how much in passenger experience has changed — but also how much hasn’t. The 1970s were the age of the spacious widebody jet, with the Boeing 747, Douglas DC-10, Lockheed L-1011 and Airbus A300 spanning skies around the world. These aircraft were wide throughout,

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The integrators

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The Air Warfare Instructor comes of age Success in any field is not merely dependent upon having the best assets. Be it hardware, software, experience or the human element, time and again it has been proven that the best results can be achieved when there is co-ordination, consultation and integration between all parties. Only then

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