Australian Aviation

The Vickers Viscount Part Eighteen in a Series Examining the Airliners That Established Civil Aviation in Australia The Vickers Viscount brought about a major change in the Australian domestic airline environment. It signalled the end of the piston engine for major trunk route equipment and heralded the accelerating change to gas turbine power which now

F-15E – Anatomy of a Strike Fighter Conceptually the F-15E Dual Role Fighter (DRF) represents a further step in the implementation of a philosophy that Is traditional to the USAF. The idea of using a long-range fighter escort for strike duties emerged in World War II, when the USAAF based in Europe employed its P-47s

Joseph F. Sutter was named Executive Vice President of the Boeing Commercial Airplane Company in September 1981. He is responsible for engineering and product development activities and for government technical liaison. In his lifetime at Boeing, he has been heavily involved with the design and development of prototype 707 and later Chief of Technology on

With total sales of the Hawk jet trainer now having exceeded 600 units, it is not surprising that British Aerospace Kingston have decided to bite the bullet and proceed with the development of a single-seat dedicated ground support version of their Hawk. Designated Hawk 200, the single-seater will carry all the modern offensive and defensive

Defence Minister Beazley Definitely for AEW The Air Force seems certain to have an invaluable ally in the new Minister for Defence, Mr. Kim Beazley, when the issue of acquiring an Airborne Early Warning capability is pushed harder soon. In a recent interview, Mr. Beazley made it clear that he personally had a lot of

The completion of the Boeing 727 production in 1984 was yet another chapter in the at-times stormy history of an aircraft produced in greater numbers than any other airliner. Launched at a time when Boeing had been experiencing financial problems, the 727 grew and improved to win an enormous list of orders which resulted in