This is the story of a Christmas-time rescue by a civilian crew of Air New Zealand of an American registered Cessna 188, overdue at Norfolk Island on a flight from Pago Pago. It is a story of exceptional airmanship. And it shows how you never know when some of the old ‘tricks of the trade’

Australian Aviation has just finished testing one of the latest products to be shipped to Australia from the US – a computer-controlled dead-reckoning navigation plotter made by a low-overhead firm, Avec (Aviation Electronics Corporation) which operates in the New Hampshire city of Nashua. Many readers with a Service aviation background will get immediate heartburn when

The Bristol Britannia, although a fine aircraft, was denied the production run that one would have expected of it. Its development programme was so protracted that nearly 4½ years passed between its first flight and its introduction into regular airline service. By that time the jet era for the airlines was looming and the large

The 767 programme was launched back in July 1978 when United Airlines announced a launch order for 30 aircraft; this was subsequently increased to 39 with the first aircraft entering service in September 1982. Other large orders received at the time were from American Airlines (30) and Delta (20), both groups powered by GE engines