Australian Aviation

 November 1976 when delivering the White Paper on Defence, the Minister for Defence, the Honourable D. J. Killen stated, inter alia, that: “Investigations have shown that the life of HMAS MELBOURNE can be extended to 1985 and that it can provide a cost­ effective contribution to a variety of our capabilities into the 1980s. “

In the 1977 edition of AADR we provided readers with an in-depth analysis of more than a doze”! pos ible,replacements for Australia’s Mirage force. At the time It would not have been extreme to comment that almost anything that could fly and fire a mi ile was in there and trying. Th tep to liminating

While the Airbus people maintain their battle to secure the Ansett-TAA order for a Boeing 727-200 replacement, the competition is hotting up. The most recent entry has been the 400 version of the Lockheed TriStar, which was suggested to the domestics last April by a high-powered Lockheed team headed by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,

Another year rolls by and here we are with the second edition of Australian Aviation & Defence Review. It was quite an effort to produce an entirely new magazine and your overwhelming support for our 1977 issue has resulted in the greatly enlarged and improved edition you are now reading. for 1978, AADR is 36 pages bigger, with no less than two dozen colour photographs while Australiawide distribution has been increased by more than 30 per cent to meet reader demand. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this article, please login.

Air Force Flight Testing Early in the Second World War the need was recognised for a specialised unit for performance, acceptance and development testing of RAAF aircraft. From this evolved the present flight testing organisation of the RAAF, Aircraft Research and Development Unit which was relocated in December 1976 from RAAF Laverton, Victoria to RAAF