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

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

A10 – British Aerospace HS.748 Originally designed by Avro (the A V Roe & Co Ltd of Manchester), then continued by the newly amalgamated Hawker Siddeley Aviation Ltd, the HS. 748 was Britain’s answer to the Dakota replacement. The first prototype, registered G-APZV, flew on June 24 1960 and a later aircraft with more powerful

Save Our Viscounts! One, maybe two Lockheed Constellations coming to Australia, several Neptunes and a Squadron of DC-3s already flying the warbird classic aircraft circuit and now the tantalisingly close prospect of Australia regaining one of ‘our’ Vickers Viscount propjets. The heavy metal ofthe airshow scene is on the move as Queensland’s Australian Rying Museum