The Messerschmitt Has Arrived A Messerschmitt is a Messerschmitt unless it is a four seat passenger version known asa Bf-108. Recently one of these rare machines was imported into Australia from Canada. Painted up as a single seat fighter the aircraft is sure to attract a lot of attention wherever it goes. It is understood

Rnzaf 727 Flies Mercy Mission The RNZAF’s 22 year old Boeing 727 returned to New Zealand early last month (October) after ferrying 1,300 refugees from the Middle East to India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Philippines. It was an unscheduled exercise for the Air Force’s VIP aircraft which had originally set off for London with

10 Years Ago The US General Aviation Manufacturers Association has reported that sales for the January to June period of this year increased to $US1. 152m compared with $US1. 068m for the same period in 1979. A disappointing aspect was the decline in aircraft delivered to 6,286 compared with 8,863 last year. The last revenue

All in a Day’s Work Air Safety This month’s air safety feature offers the third experience in our trilogy on the theme of illicit flying in cloud. Next month we look at the hidden hazards of ‘flying on clocks’ from quite a different angle – a well-planned single engined /FR flight that nearly went horribly