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Undoubtedly the most successful airliner ever built is the venerable Douglas DC3. Forty-four years after its first flight there are still a very large number fulfilling a variety of roles from regular passenger transport to various military duties. What has made this Douglas twin near-immortal is that owing to the tremendous number produced during World

As you read this edition, the diminutive Foxjet will be preparing for its first flight. Billed as the smallest, cheapest-to-operate jet yet built, the six-seat Foxjet is claimed to use less fuel than the average six-place piston-engined single while cruising at twice the speed. Manfred Bauzdus, Sales Director of Foxjet Australasia, recently outlined to AADR

Cessna makes no bones about their Pressurised Centurion – “This new Centurion is the most efficient high altitude airplane ever designed,” claims the advertising blurb. Ultimate derivative of the 210 line, the Pressurised Centurion was rolled out of the Wichita stable with an attendant amount of ballyhoo – well-deserved accolades that state Cessna’s claims embroidered

The Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation, one of the big three of Australian aircraft manufacture, was founded in 1936, and was soon to be recognized as a vital part of Australian in­dustry. CAC’s first aircraft was a modified North American NA-33 known as the Wirraway. However, while the Wirraway was being produced, an aeronautical design team had

D.A.C.T. Jim Thorn Investigates a Revolution in Realism Pioneered by the Dissimilar Air Combat Training Squadrons of the USAF & USN. The legendary Pappy Boyington once said, “The air battle is not necessarily won at the time of the battle. The winner may have been decided by the amount of time, energy, thought, and training