Engines Running About 18 months ago I was flying from Bangkok to Sydney. It was one of these early departures which gets you up at 4:30am to get your Qantas flight in time. At the airport I had still some time to kill and was strolling around the departure hall to see if I could
Register Review Among the 37 aircraft listed in this issue’s New Allocations section are two locally built Kavanagh balloons, AKX and TKA. This brings the total number of hot air balloons flying in Australia to over 200, indicating the amount of interest in ballooning in this country. On the heavier side, seven turbine twins have
Monitored by This Writer at Sydney One Recent Midmorning, as Asiana Airline’s Boeing 767-300ER Was Onshort Finals for Runway 34 Left, Following a Flight Fromcairns and Seoul in South Korea The Crewmember Using the Radio Sounded Like He Was Thecaptain, With the First Officer Likely to be the Pilot Actuallyflying the Aircraft. The Captain Requested
Around the World Record Attempt Texan Ron Bower is aiming to break his own record by setting a new around the world helicopter speed record flying a Bell 430. Ron set his first around the world record flying a JetRanger in mid 1994. His route on that trip was: east coast USA, Canada, Greenland, Iceland,
New Trans Tasman Operator In a time of increasing traffic across the Tasman and decreasing fares due to the increased competition, another player has entered the market. This time the carrier is based in Invercargill and is a joint project between Harvey World Travel Australia, Souwest Marketing of Invercargill and the New Zealand Tourism Board.
Navaid Termination Rod Pascoe surveys the latest in the world of ATC, Radar and Airways Management At the end of 1996, the US Transportation and Defense Departments will jointly publish the Federal Radionavigation Plan (FRP), setting out how they intend to provide future air, land and marine navigation services. This content is available exclusively to