Australian Aviation

10 Years Ago • Qantas has wet-leased Boeing 707-338C VH-EAC to British Caledonian Airways for 3 months. The aircraft left Sydney on 4 October with a mixed Qantas-British Caledonian colour scheme consisting of British Caledonian on the rool, a red tail and the Qantas cheat line. On arrival at Gatwick on 6 October it was

Cruise Missiles Part I The Strategic Cruise Missile One of the most insidious weapon systems ever conceived, the cruise missile is resurgent and as it appears will hold a significant place in the inventories of both the Free World and the Communist Bloc. After its initial debut in the form of the rudimentary but nevertheless

NZ Agricultural Operators Planning to Use Methanol in Place of Avgas With the cost of avgas soaring beyond $1. 10 a litre, New Zealand aerial work operators look like swinging over to methanol fuel soon. A prototype methanol conversion kit has been developed by Pacific Aerospace of Hamilton. Apart from one anticipated problem that should

Just keep those cards and letters rolling in! Well, maybe we aren’t receiving many cards, but we are getting piles of letters into Australian Aviation from you contributing to ‘On The Airbands’. We are also happy with the broad cross-section of persons who are writing to us, from passengers to commuter airline Captains, to ex-wartime

Introducing- Son of Wamira! A Federal Government decision on the fate of the Australian Aircraft Consortium’s Wamira A10 improved primary trainer should be known in October or November this year. The project has come under threat because of delays and major cost overruns, and has now developed into a competition between the AAC’s A 1

Welcome to TRAFFIC, an all-new feature of bi-monthly Australian Aviation. In this new feature we will log the arrivals and departures of aircraft of interest and will report on the large number of aircraft which are on sub-lease to other operators, etc. TRAFFIC is complementary to some of our existing features such as Airline Affairs,