10 Years Ago After rejecting bids from Justus Dornier and a consortium of Fokker and Canadian interests, the Canadian Government has agreed to sell de Havilland Aircraft Canada to Boeing for $US112m. BAe is considering a stretched version of the Jetstream 31 with the designation Jetstream 41. It would seat 27, compared with 19 in
Windows 95 – Teaching a New Dog Old Tricks Loading Windows 95 (or Macintosh 88! – Ed) is a bit like being at the takeoff end of the runway on your first solo — you have taken the training, you are pretty sure you can handle the situation, but feel very nervous about the end
Where Now For Careflight? “Hello, NRMA CareFlight Emergency Line. How can I help you?” With those words a number of actions take place and, more often than not, the NRMA CareFlight helicopter is tasked with another mission which will see a pilot, crewman, doctor, and paramedic calmly (except for a mad sprint across a playing
Albatross Pays Flying Visit To Australia The unusual visitor of the year award would probably have to go to a Grumman HU-16C Albatross amphibian that arrived in Darwin in August and was to fly across the continent in the following months. It was scheduled to attend a Fly-in at Newcastle in early October. Now owned
Piper Archer III I used to think PA-28s were boring, tinny aeroplanes, ill equipped, noisy, with poor ailerons, meagre visibility and lacklustre performance. I felt my two hundred odd hours of learning to fly in Cherokees entitled me to refer to them as “Nasty, outdated, flying tin-cans”. I did not want anything to do with
Electra For Charrak Air Charrak Air was due to take delivery of Lockheed Electra L-188CF freighter N340HA at Avalon in October. N340HA was to ferry across the Pacific under the command of Captain Neville Baker with the remainder of the crew being Captain Robert ‘Spike’ Jones and F/E Alan Graco. The Charrak Air Electra was