Australian Aviation

AUSSAT Is the marketing name given to a planned communications satellite purely for Australian domestic usage, which, when operational, will benefit the fields of commercial broadcasting, television, telephone communications, business communications, and AERONAUTICAL COMMUNICATIONS. Aussat is a company that was set up by the Commonwealth Government in November 1981 with staff seconded from OTC Australia.

Not a civil version of the US Coast Guard’s HU-25A; not a re-engined Falcon 20F; but a completely new aircraft with a pair of brilliant new-technology engines, updated aerodynamics, and improved performance. . . That’s the label hung on the Falcon 200, one of the latest corporate products to emerge from the hangars of Avions

One of the stars of the 1982 Farnborough Air Show flying display was by coincidence the slowest. Each day the relatively large Airship Industries Skyship 500 would glide in to prove again that old ideas aren’t necessarily always ‘old hat”. The concept of a large, by modern standards, airship was promoted by Cardington-based Airship Industries

Part Two of an Aerospace Success Saga! Since the inception of new management attitudes to the Hawker de Havilland operation, action resulting from the re-thinking of policy has seen Hawker de Havilland develop machining and fabrication facilities Incorporating the most advanced technologies In the world. In the December Issue of AUSTRALIAN AVIATION, we examined in-depth

Ipec Jets Into the Eighties The rather quiet atmosphere pervading the spec hangar on a cloudy summer morning rather belies the sense of urgency that has prevailed during the previous evening. The morning Is the time for reflection and analysis of what has transpired during the night’s work and preparation for the next evening between

AFTS Flight Safety Starts With Good Flying Training! The story of the Australian Flying Training School is essentially the story of Barney Fernandes. It is a success story; success that has been the result of very long and hard toil, willingness to invest time and money in a believed-in concept, idealism, and a dream for