Australian Aviation

Darwin to Sydney, against a headwind, in six hours and ten minutes in a ‘commuter’ aircraft is not a bad achievement. The commuter aircraft in question is Embraer’s EMB-120 Brasilia. The Brasilia, registered PT-ZBB was actually the official rollout aircraft as prototype 02 and was visiting the region on a pre-Paris Air Show demonstration tour.

Part Nineteen in a Series Examining the Airliners That Established Civil Aviation in Australia The period 1957/58 was a time of considerable change in Australian domestic aviation. During August 1957, the Directors of Australian National Airways agreed to an offer from Ansett Transport Industries to acquire ANA for 3. 3 million pounds, and this led

1984 proved to be a much better year for the majority of the Major airlines in our area. In comparison with the negative growth experienced in the industry for the previous twelve months, most of the airlines recorded rises in the major indicators for 1984. In Australia, the domestic airlines’ total tonne-kilometres rose 6. 9%

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What better way to kick off the first of the regular “On the Airbands” articles than by supplying an even more detailed RAAF Mission-Callsign list, for the use of those of us who have military UHF on their radio equipment, or we who have VHF gear and can monitor the few military VHF channels available,

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