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Election Campaign The forthcoming Federal election seems unlikely to produce any fireworks and prominent headlines, unless the Liberal-National Coalition has a few surprises up its sleeve. While there is no formal bipartisan agreement between the Government and Opposition on defence policies, the differences mostly appear at the margins. However, at the time of writing, the
Sir Tim Wallis In New Zealand Spitfire Accident An accident that saw his Spitfire Mk.XIV ‘NH799’, ZK-XIV, very badly damaged and putting leading New Zealand Warbird owner and pilot in hospital with serious injuries must make one ask if Sir Tim can afford to continue flying Spitfires. The accident occurred at Wanaka aerodrome, in the
10 Years Ago The French certification was granted to the three-engined Dassault-Breguet Falcon 900 business jet on March 13 and was followed by US Type Approval on March 21. Falcon 900 orders currently stand at 51. The first flight of Cessna’s stretched version of the Caravan utility aircraft took place on March 3. It has
N8 – Westland Scout AH.71 The Westland P.531 was designed as a private venture by the Saunders-Roe company as a compact five-seat general purpose helicopter. Developed from the company’s earlier Skeeter light helicopter, the Saro P.531 was larger with an externally mounted 400shp (800kW) turbine engine with a four-bladed main rotor and a four-wheeled undercarriage.
Is General Aviation and the vast industry that supports it going to languish for another three years or is it time for a new and reinvigorated team to implement the many changes that are so long overdue? Danielle Doney speaks with Dick Smith, President of the influential Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association to ascertain the
A Total Fix to Sydney’s Aviation Problems To virtually everybody in the aviation industry the present ‘problems’ at Sydney’s Kingsford Smith Airport border on the absurd. With a fair dose of lateral thinking we offer this lighthearted overview of what a skilled outsider might well make of the situation. John Laurie reports on what could
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Raising the Bar in Commercial Laundry: How Rinse & Repeat Is Redefining Service for Aviation
Raising the Bar in Commercial Laundry: How Rinse & Repeat Is Redefining Service for Aviation
UPRT Australia- Transforming Aviation’s Greatest Risk into Its Greatest Asset
UPRT Australia- Transforming Aviation’s Greatest Risk into Its Greatest Asset
