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The Australian Department of Defence has announced its requirement for an Iroquois helicopter replacement programme. Responding to what will ultimately be a billion-dollar order are Aerospatiale with their Super Puma, Sikorsky with the export version of the UH-60 Blackhawk, Westland with the military development of the W30 and Boeing/Bell with the revolutionary JVX Tilt Rotor.

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Is United Airlines New Zealand Bound? Despite making the biggest profit in its history last year ($79 million), Air New Zealand wears a gloomy face these days. A strike by cabin crew grounded all international and domestic aircraft for five days up until Christmas Eve and cost the company an estimated $11 million. It soured

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Australia’s Air Traffic Management System has not kept pace with available technology. In this fascinating article, John Botwood describes some of the problems confronting the management of ATC flow at Australia’s major airports. The Effect of Air Traffic Control On Aviation Economy Most overseas countries have Air Traffic Systems in which the system handles the

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On-Board Couriers – A Nineteen Eighties Growth Industry Seated beside me on the 747 is a young lady busily filling out a pile of documentation. Out of curiosity, I enquire as to precisely what her ‘hobby’ is and it is then and there that one learns first-hand of an entirely new industry – that of

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Not many airlines operate such a large number of ultralong-range sectors, nor are they based literally on the other side of the world. Few airlines are a full twenty-four hours away from the originating source of spares and fewer still get near the level of technical operating efficiency than our own international airline, Qantas, does.

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