Australian Aviation

Hang gliding is probably closer to most people’s dream of flight than any other sort of aviation. One trots forward a few3aces into the wind on some hill or cliff top, the feet are lifte clear of the ground and the legs tucked up, and one floats. One’s earliest flights are likely to be clumsy

The Australian at war has always carried with him a heritage of bravery and cunning not often surpassed by any other nation. Indeed the exploits of th. e RAAF and of Australians serving in foreign air arms are legend and something of which every Australian should be duly proud. One of the most successful. aircraft

Hawker DeHavilland are certainly putting the cat among the aerospace pigeons. Indeed this most productive private enterprise company is currently developing three new technologies that should prove valuable in years to come. The first of these developments is a small RPV target aircraft which is priced at only a fraction of its overseas counterparts. The

The sport of gliding is never likely to attract vast crowds. It lacks the spectator appeal of hang gliding and although not so costly as P. ower flying, it is expensive enough to deter many who are mildly attracted. Quite a lot of people, on seeing graceful, slender, motorless craft wheeling slowly in the sky,

Any person interested in defence should be quite excited by the probable RAAF/RAN FAA equipment status in the 1980s. Australia should boast a very worthwhile Tactical Fighter Force for air defence and ground support while Harpoon equipped Orions and F111Cs will provide our shores with effective long range defence from seaborne forces. The RAN hopefully

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