Australian Aviation

India Buys The Hermes And Additional Sea Harriers: India has purchased the ex-Royal Navy carrier, Hermes, for a reported $A100m. The 33,000-tonne aircraft carrier, which was reported by the Argentinian press to have been sunk no less than six times during the course of the Falklands conflict will be extensively updated and refurbished in Britain

Boeing 747 Fatigue Cracks Might Force Premature Grounding Of Older Aircraft: Directives issued during late March by the US Federal Aviation Agency have advised operators of older model Boeing 747s to perform in-depth crack and fatigue detection tests principally in the forward area of the aircraft hull. This follows the discovery recently by BA, PanAm

A Visit to the Dark Side of the Moon! If you want to do something really depressing then I suggest you go no further than spend a day touring the Government Aircraft Factory at Fishermen’s Bend in Melbourne. Perhaps to those who have never dealt with GAF (an ironically coincidental acronym!) this statement may appear

Feedback It is always nice to get morale boosting letters from readers And one such letter we received recently was of extra significance to us. It seems we weren’t the only ones aggravated by the July edition of the ABC’s Four Corners programme (refer p. 8 Nov 85 AA) which launched into a flourish of

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Col Pay’s Spitfire Flies! The really big news in this issue of Warbirds is that the Supermarine Spitfire VIII of well-known Warbird owner and pilot, Col Pay, made its first flight on December 27 following a lengthy rebuild. The Spitfire, VH-HET, made the first flight at Scone, NSW and aside from a minor undercarriage warning