Australian Aviation

Indonesia Shows Us the Way It’s so easy here in Australia to dismiss the Indonesians as struggling third-worlders. Yet in many ways, the opposite is true, particularly in the realm of high-tech aerospace production. The recent signing of Nurtanio with Bell Helicopter Textron for the production of 100 or more Bell 412 medium-lift helicopters is

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Nostalgia is sometimes a bit of a yawn, but we came across some literature during our travels which made us wonder whether we were really in this world or looking on it from some far-distant point in our little Universe. A business acquaintance of ours is a bit of a bookworm – the understatement of

. . . fighter pilot . . . prisoner of war . . . test pilot . . . aerobatic ace . . . Australia’s first Forward Air Controller . . . squadron commander . . . There had been a fight. They were landing in ones and twos and the sides of their planes

The years 1981 and 1982 have seen a burgeoning and lucrative market for military aircraft worldwide. This demand has barely let up as billions of dollars change hands between world governments and large corporations. In recent times the world has been set alight with disputes, skirmishes, conflicts and the like adding to the general chaos.

A highly-trained group of 1200 men who are responsible for the orderly flow of Air Traffic within Australia’s flight information regions have found themselves under occasional attack by Commuter Airlines and Charter Companies. The complaints are directed at the alleged controller’s contribution to the increasing ATC delays being experienced by aircraft on the ground, on