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Register Review This issue’s new allocations comprise a mixed bag of aircraft including nine helicopters and, five airliners, . five homeless: three balloons, two agricultural aircraft, one b1zJet and a sprinkling of both old and new light aircraft. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the
Faster, Lighter, Safer Helicopter Blades Companies in the Westland Group, together accounting for most helicopter manufacture in the United Kingdom, are increasingly using composites nowadays. These materials are lighter and stronger and have better load carrying and more durable properties than conventional metal alloys, while in certain rotary wing applications, design to more exacting specifications
An Engineering Overview The ALAEA is an industrial organisation representing Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineers (LAMEs) throughout Australia. One of our principal objectives is to “promote and enforce high standards in aircraft maintenance”. The challenge les in maintaining present standards or increasing them, in the face of commercial and time pressures which favour a relaxing of
FAC Initiatives The Federal Airports Corporation has taken some positive steps to promote the expansion of the General Aviation sector in Australia. The initiatives to be announced progressively will be taken with industry support and will underpin the future development of the industry. At a meeting with industry representatives in November 1989, it was encouraging
Another Airtrainer Run? Pacific Aerospace was all set to restart the CT-4B Airtrainer production line in early November – exactly 13 years after it ceased producing the nippy two-seater for air forces (including the RAAF and RNZAF) and flying schools. The Hamilton-based company came within days of ‘pressing the button’ to move on an order
The world’s largest hot air airship ever built and flown has been rolled out at the Thunder & Colt airship base at Rednal, near Oswestry, UK and is now undergoing flight trials. The AS261 is a 261,000 cubic foot craft, specifically designed to be used in a unique ecological research project in the South American
