Of jelly beans and jets As there is in any organisation, a friendly rivalry exists between pilots flying different types of aircraft in the RAAF. For example, transport pilots are often known as Trash Haulers or Trashies, while those who fly fighters readily answer to the name Knuckle Head or Knuck. Also, for some obscure
Register Review The New Allocations section this month consists of 16 aircraft, exactly the same as last month, although in reality numbers are dwindling as more than one third are reregistrations of aircraft already flying in Australia. The remainder consists of a good cross section of types including four amateur built machines, two ex military
Awa Takes off in China: AWA has recently been awarded a new contract to provide air navigation systems for a further 18 civil airports in China. The latest contract means that AWAnow has contracts to install air navigation equipment at a third (or 72) of China’s civil airports. On top of this recent success, AWA
Military Army Trials Scouts: Israel Air- craft Industry Scout unmanned aerial vehicles have been undergoing Army evaluation in recent times. Two of Scout UAVs have been on lease, with 20Israeli civilians attached to the Army involved with the trials. Under Project Nexon, the Scouts are being evaluated with a view to improving the Army’s battlefield
Defence Update Raaf Preparing to Accept 15 G Models to Boost F-111 Fleet Royal Australian Air Force planning is well under way to prepare for the acceptance of the 15 surplus United States Air Force F-111G model strike jets over the next few months. Ferry flights from the US to RAAF Amberley in south east
Govt Admits Sale of Jeta Mistake: Queensland Premier Wayne Goss has admitted that his government made a mistake when it sold its 125-800, ‘the Joh jet’, for what were purely political reasons. The sale, described at the time by virtually everybody except the government as foolish and narrow minded, resulted in the aircraft being sold