Frustrated by a lack of progress overseas, Australia is about to act unilaterally on measures designed to protect airline passengers flying to, from, or within Australia, beyond the current Warsaw Convention limits. Two bills now before Parliament will increase airline liability limits and impose insurance requirements on all carriers to ensure that accident victims or

A statement by Australia’s Minister for Defence on June 4, 1947, advised that the Government’s five-year defence plan would include the procurement of two light aircraft carriers to establish a Fleet Air Arm for the RAN. A total of 90 aircraft would be purchased from the UK, 35 needed to equip each carrier, and orders

Pilatus Britten-Norman Islander My first encounter with Pilatus Britten-Norman’s world famous Islander was in Zimbabwe. Nine of us, safari bound, piled out of a vintage Air Zim Viscount and staggered across Kariba’s blistering tarmac into a work weary, bleached orange example . Hefting my bulging bag into the luggage compartment with the others, I was

The acquisition of an Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C) capability for the ADF has been a contentious issue for many, many years. Australian Aviation’s TE column first covered the matter in 1982, at which time the Israeli triumph in the Bekaa Valley and the Royal Navy’s trauma in the Falklands were fresh in the