Hawker Sea Fury Fb.11 After the 1947 defence statement announcing the acquisition of two light carriers, the Majestic class was selected from the UK. Embarked would be the standard Royal Navy frontline aircraft types of the time, the Fairey Firefly attack aircraft and the classic Hawker Sea Fury fighter. Although the Firefly had received the

November Nine Zero One Three Victor Who would have believed that in 1995 here in Australia we would be talking about seeing and hearing such aircraft types as the Lockheed Super Constellation, the Lockheed Electra and the Douglas DC-4. The restoration project on the Super Constellation has been well documented in this magazine while the

Unscheduled Landing Airline flying was not always the precise procedure it is these days. In earlier years, scheduled RPT operations were carried out without the benefit of today’s sophisticated navigation equipment and the degree of support now available from the air traffic services system. Moreover, operational requirements such as flight time limitations and stipulated procedures

An aircraft baggage container capable of absorbing shock waves from bombs such as the one which destroyed the PanAm 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, has been developed by Royal Ordnance (RO), a subsidiary of British Aerospace (BAe). The new Protective Cargo Container (PCC) has undergone extensive trials at RO’s unique Fast Event Facility at Chorley in