Australian Aviation

The Boeing Skyfox Jet Trainer Boeing have taken over the potentially promising Skyfox jet trainer programme and have offered the aircraft to the RAAF to fulfil a number of roles. The Skyfox is a most interesting programme any goes a long way to proving the old adage that ‘life begins at forty’! Skyfox is basically

10 Years Ago •Following an assessment of the current utilisation rate of their Aermacchi MB326H aircraft the RAAF has issued a revised air staff requirement for a new advanced trainer. The performance requirement would be for a maximum speed of Mach 0. 9 and a 1500 range Up to 80 aircraft would be ordered including

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The Airbus A320 During the 1985 Paris Air Show the Joint Chairman and Managing Director of Ansett Airlines of Australia Sir Peter Abeles, and the President of Airbus Industrie, Mr Jean Pierson, announced that an order had been signed on 12 May 1985 in Sydney covering the purchase of seventeen examples of the all-new Airbus

Aquatic Airways Australia’s unique Seaplane commuter Without a doubt one of Australia’s most unusual commuter operators is seaplane specialist, Aquatic Airways. Based at picturesque Palm Beach on Sydney’s beautiful northern beaches, in what was an old boathouse, Aquatic Airways not only flies two veteran deHavilland Canada Beaver floatplanes but also operates them over Australia’s shortest

Based at Morwell in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley the National Safety Council of Australia operates a well-equipped emergency and rescue service that is second to none. This issue Australian Aviation looks at the NSCA and how it operates. Ready for Call-Out The name of the National Safety Council of Australia is now reasonably well known but