USAF To Deploy Second-Generation Stealth Strike Fighter The Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk stealth fighter captured the world’s imagination during the 1991 Gulf Campaign, when these capable aircraft penetrated Iraq’s most heavily defended airspace with impunity, destroying their chosen targets with pinpoint accuracy. The F-117A is a first-generation stealth aircraft, designed using the faceting technique, a method

Who Is In Control? Since early 1994 in the US, commercial aircraft with 30 or more seats have been required to carry Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance Systems (TCAS). Across the Atlantic, however, the UK CAA has not made the system mandatory, nor has any other country. But its use is slowly becoming more widespread

They Can Turn And Bite The fatal general aviation accident at Walgett in northwestern Nsw late last year in which four lives were lost is still under investigation by the Bureau of Air Safety and the official report is yet to be released. But the Bureau’s likely findings on the cause of this needless tragedy

Minibus: Beyond Airbus British Aerospace and the Italo-French Atr organisation announced on January 26 they would merge the marketing, sales and customer support operations of their regional aircraft ranges into a single group. The group, owned equally by Alenia, Aerospatiale and Bae, will combine the two Atr models, the Jetstream 31 and 41 and, surprisingly,