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Aerospatiale Super Puma The Australian Department of Defence has announced its requirement for an Iroquois and Wessex helicopter replacement programme. Responding to what will ultimately be a billion-dollar order are Aerospatiale with their Super Puma, Sikorsky with the export version of the UH-60 Blackhawk, Westland with the military development of the W30 and Boeing/Bell with

No. 3: Indonesia Indonesia is a nation of some 1400 islands stretching from the Malacca Straits to the border with Papua-New Guinea. Whereas the majority of the 160 million population is concentrated on the main islands of Java and Sumatra, there is a massive programme of transmigration underway to settle peasant farmers from Java and

A billion dollars in accumulated operating deficits is an almost terminal burden for any business. For For an airline, living In a world of traditionally low yield, It can be fatal. That the world’s biggest airline, British Airways, suffered this precise situation through the early eighties makes sits phenomenal turnaround of the past eighteen months

McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet Australia’s Air Defence Muscle for the Coming Decades The introduction into service of the F/A-18 by the RAAF and the phasing out of the Mirage 1110 win represent a watershed In the development of the service. Although the Hornet will certainly lack the ‘top-end’ performance of the obsolescent Mirage, it will

Air Queensland’s recent order for four ATR42s with an additional four on options is seen both here and abroad as a significant endorsement of this advanced European aircraft. The ATR consortium were a late runner in the supercommuter race. Saab-Fairchild, de Havilland Canada, Shorts and Embraer were all well ahead in their development programmes when

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