50 Years Ago… October 1 — Australia 18 Liberators, seven from 24 Sqn, bomb Laha airstrip. The runway is cratered and barracks damaged. By now the RAAF has eight transport squadrons: Nos 33, 34, 35, 36 and 38, equipped with Dakotas, No 37 (Lodestars), No 40 (Sunderlands) and No 41 (Martin Mariners). All units are

RAAF Aims For 1999 Delivery Of Lead-In Fighter By Tom Muir. With the useful life of the RAAF’s MB-326 jet trainers unlikely to extend beyond the year 2000, the Air Force is taking no chances and wants initial deliveries of its replacement – the proposed Lead-In Fighter Aircraft – to be in service by no

New Aviation Licence Examination Procedures Planned For Mid 1995 By Norman Lee. In July last year the CAA Aviation Bulletin reported the prosecution and subsequent conviction of an independent conducting officer for selling exam passes in commercial pilot and instrument rating exams. Confronted with other examples of outright fraud, and evidence of abnormally high pass

Oshkosh 1994 — Definitely on an Upswing If the 1994 EAA Oshkosh Convention was any measure of the current state of the General Aviation (GA) industry in America, then it looks like the economic upturn has definitely started. Given the huge crowds that attend Oshkosh, it is the ideal focal point for the GA industry