Australian Aviation

Air New Zealand Takes Majority Shareholding Of Mount Cook Mount Cook, New Zealand’s second airline (it dates back to 1920) became three-quarters owned by Air New Zealand in September. The majority take-over of the Mount Cook Group followed a three-year saga of Commerce Commission wrangles and High Court injunctions and appeals. It delighted the national

Can You Help? Reader reaction to our Warbirds item, “Swords to Ploughshares” on p99 of the September issue, has been very strong. The mere thought of the now irreplaceable aircraft that were burnt, hacked, bulldozed and melted down during the post war era is disheartening to say the least. While many readers remember these times,

10 Years Ago •A Boeing 747SP registered N4013 arrived in Sydney on 20 November after a non-stop flight from Bombay. After demonstrations for Qantas it departed on 23 November flying non-stop to Santiago. • The first flight of the N24 Nomad took place during December at Avalon flown by test pilot S. Pearce. In other

If you have never tried getting a Sioux 47 G3B-1 airborne with a density altitude of around 7000 feet and the aircraft sagging under the weight of armour plating, survival kits, personal weapons, plus an observer carrying sufficient weaponry to start and finish WW3 then chances are you’ve missed one of life’s more challenging moments.

The Bae 125 Business Jet A Continuing Success Story On 23 May, the British Aerospace Civil Division celebrated the 600th sale of its extremely successful BAe 125 business jet at a ceremony at its Broughton factory near Chester. This fine aircraft has now been in production for 20 years and has become Britain’s best-selling civil

This is the second of our annual reviews of Australian helicopter operations and, although much has happened in the industry in the past twelve months, not a great number of changes have occurred, the principal changes being the enlargement of fleets, and some updating to newer and larger equipment. One change that may occur in