Australian Aviation

The de Havilland DH. 104 Dove Part Twenty-Two in a Series Examining the Airliners That Established Civil Aviation in Australia The de Havilland Dove was a most successful postwar product from the talented team at Hatfield. Based on the Brabazon Committee’s Type 58 aircraft which was intended to replace the Rapide, de Havilland designed the

Thai International Ushers in a New Generation of Powerplants With A300-600 Delivery Thai international October entry into service of its first Airbus Industrie A300-600 has effectively ushered in a new era in high by-pass big fan engines. Thai presently operates an all-GE powered fleet of 747s, DC- 1Os and A300s in an international route network

The huge amount of mail from devoted ‘On the Airbands” readers has even stunned this writer; it’s really great to know that there are so many people getting so much pleasure from airband monitoring. Please keep the mail coming, as variety is the essence of the success of the series. During July, HF monitors right

While the British and German fighters of the Second World War were struggling for supremacy in the air, another battle was being fought out by the engine manufacturers. Each side was striving to keep its piston-engined fighters in the lead before the advent of jet aircraft. Two authors, one British and one German, describe this

Is Inadequate Yield Killing Our Airlines? Perhaps the most important revelation of the 1985 Annual General Meeting of the International Air Transport Association held in Hamburg during late October and attended by Australian Aviation, was the unanimous agreement that revenue yield was deteriorating to the point of placing at risk the fragile profitability of airline

Undoubtedly the 1985 Schofields will be best remembered as the show that didn’t get rained out. Heavy Spring rain deluged Sydney the week up to the event and all but the greatest optimists amongst us prepared for yet another wet air show. Fortunately it was not to be and the more than 30,000 people who