Australian Aviation

New Cessna Single: Let’s hope that things are picking up, credit is getting easier to find, rates are slowly falling and the best news from the US for GA for many months Is that Cessna has re-opened its singles line. On the new products side, Cessna will roll out a revolutionary new type early in

Super Cruise: The USAF are to proceed with the development of an advanced cruise missile utilising stealth technology. Administered by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA, the USAF equivalent of our ARDU) under the code name of Teal Dawn the competition will involve Lockheed, General Dynamics and Boeing. The latter two companies already built

Setair Expands: In this age of shrinking markets, decreasing yields and generally grim economic forecasting, it is a refreshing change to see some good old-fashioned growth. Setair, who probably will go down in the nineteen eighties’ aeronautical history as the only people able to make money from operating DC-3s, are expanding and re-organising their Melbourne-based

The first of a two-part series examining one of Australia’s most dynamic aerospace manufacturers. Hawker de Havilland Australia was originally set up half a century ago in Melbourne and began manufacturing wings for Avro 504K aeroplanes. In 1982, the Hawker de Havilland story Is one not only of manufacture, but also of comprehensive maintenance support,

AWSACS, a unique all-weather image-forming radar targeting system, combined with modern air-launched standoff weapons, gives strike airpower a decided edge in . . . Air warfare experts generally agree that, although attack aircraft and their weapon delivery systems have become increasingly effective, so have opposing anti-air defences. In warfare today and in the future, the

Cessna’s Citation II has been among the front-runners in Australian corporate/charter operations since the first copy arrived in 1978. Holding its own with consummate ease in a currently quiet and increasingly specialised market, the Citation II as marketed by Rex Aviation represents a performance envelope and DOCs currently sought after by a number of turboprop