TALES Definitely the lighter side of aviation! Panic Airways! In the early days of postwar civil aviation things were fairly relaxed and it was not unusual for crew pranks to be developed to a near art form. Our story has an unnamed airline’s DC-3ambling along between Sydney and Brisbane in the late forties. On board

Register Review Twenty six aircraft are listed in the New Allocation section this month therefore with four machines returning to the register and 23 deletions, the number of aircraft flying in Australia remains fairly steady with just over 9400 entries on the official register. The trend continues with the large majority of the new entries

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

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