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Macchi, Hawk or CASA? The 1977-78 period will see quite a few Defence Depart­ ment si natures put to aircraft procurement contracts, one of these will be for a new jet trainer to equip the RAAF and RAN. Fortunately for the evaluation team, the choice of a Macchi 326H replacement will be much more simple

Hydrogen as the fuel of the post-fossil fuel era was predicted more than a hundred years ago by that great forecaster of the future, Jules Verne, in his novel “The Mysterious Island” “Water decomposed into its primitive elements, and decomposed doubtless by electricity, which will then have become a power and manageable force . .

Indeed 1975/76 was not a kind one to our commercial airlines. From the small feederliners to the giant that is Qantas they all felt the savage impact of reduced passenger traffic alongside rapidly escalating fuel and service costs. Govern­ ment imposed still higher taxes, aviation fuel continued to soar in price, rents on premises increased

A generation ago the process of selecting equipment for an air force was a relatively simple exercise. You had so much in budget and you had four basic types of aircraft – fighter, bomber, transport and trainer. Selection ot a trainer and transport was simply a matter of what was available and used by Mother

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The real cliff-hanger in the Australian airline industry for the 1970s has been the choice and timing of a wide-bodied airliner for the domestic services. It is the biggest series of ex­cuses and postponements our airlines have ever known and it could very well continue that way for another year or two. The delay could