AADR AIRTEST Cessna Cutlass It was a logical progression … there wasn’t really much else to do with the timeless 172 after they put a constant speed prop on it and called it the Skyhawk XP. Ever since Wichita hit on the money-making – and customer-generating – formula of designing what amounts to one of

That Is the Question One of the biggest battles now looming on the military aircraft horizon is that between V/STOL and STOL, i.e. between jet lift and wing lift, in the struggle for better airfield performance. At present a considerable gap exists between these two concepts. On the one hand, all V/STOL combat aircraft currently

When the Chairman of the Australian National Airlines Commission (Sir Robert Law-Smith) and the regional sales manager for Airbus Industrie of Toulouse (Mr Hugh Tansley) signed the order for four Airbus A300-84s and two options on December 10, they climaxed an effort of wills that began back in 1966/7. In its way, that typifies the

When Kipling wrote, “. . . The shouting and the tumult dies, the captains and the kings depart . . . “, he could have been thinking of the DC-3 some 40 years after it was first conceived by Donald W. Douglas. No other aircraft fought in so many theatres of war, pioneered commercial aviation