Australian Aviation

Hawker Sea Fury Flys The 14th of November 1983 saw the first flight of Guido Zuccoli’s Hawker Sea Fury at Darwin, NT. This former Iraqi Air Force machine, a version of the RN IRAN type naval Sea Fury has been under build for some two years now. Two more of the type are under rebuild

Australian Aircraft Sales Celebrates 1983 as the Largest Owner of Fokker Friendships on Earth Australia’s own civil airliner dealer, Australian Aircraft Sales, certainly is unique. Unique not only in that it Is the only operation of its type in Australia but largely because it actually purchases the aircraft it lists for sale. This unusual approach

Project Winnin, the Australian-designed missile decoy system designed to lure an approaching anti-ship missile such as Harpoon (to be used by Australian Forces) and Exocet away from its intended target, could be developed faster with Australian industry involvement, according to Defence sources. A move to interest local industry in the project was signalled by the

On April 1, as a first step towards being sold to private ownership next year, British Airways will cease to be a State Corporation and become a public limited company with, like Qantas, all shares owned by the Government. Recently, 70 senior executives at BA were given their marching orders, to join 23,000 other staff

‘Necessity is the mother of invention,’ it is said, and one can hardly dispute that age-old saying when examining aviation’s latest jet trainer. Skyfox Industries has been formed core of retired Lockheed senior executives and engineers who saw a potential market for refurbished Lockheed T-33 jet trainers. At the time Portugal’s international airline, TAP, had

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