Australian Aviation

To most Australians, the Douglas DC-6 series of airliners were not significant aircraft. That national Institution, Qantas, selected the Lockheed Constellation for its post-war expansion and romantic notions of air travel and distant places in the late forties and fifties were closely allied with this elegant three-tailer. The Douglas product was also associated with the

The de Havilland Canada Beaver and Otter Part Fourteen in a Series Examining the airliners That Established Civil Aviation in Australia The Canadian aircraft industry has made a most valuable contribution to Australian aviation in the post-World War II period. Many aircraft spring immediately to mind and they typify the diversity of Canadian aviation. The

Switzerland Aims To Defend Its Neutrality Just a little larger than half the size of Tasmania, Switzerland has built up an impressive air force with which to defend its neutrality. Impressive not so much in the exotica of aeronautical hardware or in numbers of state-of-the-art aircraft in inventory but more so in the simplicity in

Amx – Successor to the Skyhawk and Hunter? A US Marine Corps General once stated solemnly during the dark days of Vietnam “we must stop sending twenty million dollar aeroplanes to blow up ten thousand dollar trucks!” Considering that during the Vietnam conflict the modern man, portable surface-to-air missile was still in its infancy then·

Vickers VC10s, one of the most popular airliners in the world with crews and passengers alike during their years in airline service, has taken on a new lease of life as in-flight refuelling tankers for the Royal Air Force. Nine aircraft are involved in the initial programme though a further ten may be added utilising

10 Years Ago • As a result of the suspension of American Airlines’ services to Australia 2 March 1974, Pan American Airways has added two new Boeing 707 services via Auckland from 12 April. • The co-founder of Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited, which later became Qantas Empire Airways Ltd, Sir Hudson Fysh,