10 Years Ago • The service career of the Vulcan came to an end on March 31 when the last operational Vulcan squadron, No 50 based at Waddington, was disbanded. • The RNZAF’s nine McDonnell Douglas A-4K and three TA-4K Skyhawks will have their service lives extended until at least the end of the decade

Qantas 747 Flight Simulator Recently, as a part of a briefing on the Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) now fitted to Qantas’s aircraft (refer p42 Aug 93 AA), I was given the opportunity to fly the 747-400 simulator. All told I had just over an hour which was mostly spent on the TCAS demonstration, but

Sukhoi Su-29 Sukhoi! To many people the name conjures up images of a Russian high performance aircraft. It certainly does to me and in this case it conjures up an image of one of the highest performing aerobatic aircraft in the world. ie: The Sukhoi Su-26/29. Since commencing competition aerobatics two years ago, I have

Adf Bombing Helps Stem Nsw Fires It has gone little noticed that Australian Defence Force efforts in combating last January’s New South Wales bushfires are believed to be the largest ADF involvement in natural disaster relief work since Cyclone Tracy hit Darwin in 1974. Much of the ADF aid was aviation related, with Army and