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The Mitsubishi Aircraft International Marquise, type certificate designation MU-28-60, is going for the throat of an increasingly specialised consumer market in Australasia. . . John Perry flies the aircraft they call the Rice Rocket. The type, with its sisters the Solitaire and Diamond I, is being aggressively marketed by Essendon-based lnterair Pty. Ltd. , using

THERE THEY GO AGAIN DEPT. Did you see Channel Ten’s ‘The Reporters’ (14th October) and their segment on the MDC F/A-18 Hornet? Unfortunately, I did, as did many others who marvel at how a story can be so misconstrued to the point of virtually inventing facts with which to bombard the television viewer. This content

A little-known area of Qantas operations is the General Aircraft Services unit. This specialist unit is relatively low on manpower but big on expertise in the critical role of supporting visiting corporate, passenger charter, military and freight aircraft. Officially designated General Aircraft Services in 1982, the unit has been in operation since the early sixties

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Growing Offset Workload of Benefit to Australia Australian money spent overseas has, in the past, been of no value to Australian industry, but with the establishment of a Government program advocating Australian Industry Participation in large contracts, this situation has changed. The Commonwealth Government’s Australian Offsets Program was founded in 1970 and as a result

The development of helicopter operations in Australia has its bright, and its not so bright spots. With a new helicopter industry operator’s association close to the formation, John Spiers spoke to Terry Summers, chief helicopter instructor, Rex Helicopter School, Bankstown, NSW, on the outlook for the helicopter industry, and for the people who want to