Australian Aviation

In the 1978 edition of the Australian Aviation & Defence Review, we published the following spellbinding account of how air combat is fought and won. Lt Randy Cunningham and Lt Willie Driscoll were the US Navy’s only Vietnam aces; how they scored their kills makes fascinating reading. We reprint this article on the basis of

Electro-Optical Systems To see and yet not be seen, Is the character of modern warfare. Significantly, current and future weapon systems are capable of easily wiping out targets, in the air or on the ground, once detected and identified. T his of course places incentives upon all parties, incentives to locate and reliably recognise the

The Falcon 50 is considered one of the ‘big three’ in the corporate aircraft market along with the Gulfstream Ill and the Canadair Challenger. When one considers the first customer delivery was in July 1979 and that well over 60 aircraft have been delivered since that time in the United States alone, obviously a large

When flying instructor David Gowing found that people in remote areas wanted to learn to fly, but could not leave their stations to go to his flying school, he took the flying school to them. Gowing, who operates his flying school and charter business at Kempsey on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales,

Veteran C-47-DL c/n 6007, more recently Setalr’s DC-3 VH-EWE, has commenced a new period of service under an old identity. . . but no longer in a flying capacity. Purchased earlier this year by McDonald’s Family Restaurants, the aircraft is to be set up as a special ‘functions room’ annexe alongside McDonald’s restaurant in Westlakes,

At a time when the Australian Aircraft Consortium Is bringing together national resources to develop and market a comparatively modest propeller-driven basic trainer, it is difficult to believe that Australia once had the largest aircraft manufacturing industry In the southern hemisphere. Older readers will hopefully forgive me for recalling that during the war years local