Australian Aviation

Fifteen years ago Airbus Industrie was merely the name for a newly launched aspirant to the commercial aircraft manufacturing scene. Even a decade ago when the prototype A300 first took to the air Airbus Industrie was still a fledgling standing in the shadows of the North American giants, Boeing, Lockheed and Douglas. Today, the situation

While researching the Regional Airline Directory published in AUSTRALIAN AVIATION in September last year, I became aware of a significant degree of concern being felt by more than one large commuter airline operator, relating to the treatment of General Aviation and Commuter aircraft by Air Traffic Control. While some operators spoken to privately expressed dissatisfaction

USAF Provide ‘Sale of the Century’ to US Corporate Aircraft Manufacturers: USAF has released a Request For Proposals (RFP) for up to 120 corporate-type aircraft to replace the Rockwell International CT-39 Sabreliner currently used in the operational support fleet. USAF are primarily interested in leasing the entire aircraft fleet including subcontracting maintenance and support tasks

It’s Only a Mirage: The phantom glitches struck again at the editor’s cover caption for the December issue. Believe it or not, at one time the top Mirage was a dualseat 1110 but certainly not when it became finished artwork. Reader response to our specially commissioned cover portraits by Mitch Lovett has been overwhelming and

New Australian Space Company Formed: Hawker de Havilland of Sydney and Maira of France have joined forces to establish a new Australian space organisation. Auspace Pty Ltd has been formed to promote Australian involvement in the growing space industry and will be acting as the industrial lead contractor for the Starlab project Starlab is being

One of the aeronautical engineering achievements of recent times was certainly Boeing’s launch of two brand-new aircraft programmes almost simultaneously. While sharing a measure of designed-in commonality, the 767 and 757 twins represent a joint development effort second to none in commercial aviation. The smaller of the twins is the 757. This attractive aircraft was