A7 – Aermacchi MB-326H An evaluation team departed Australia in February 1965 to look for an “all through” pilot jet trainer to replace both of the RAAF’s existing training aircraft, the Winjeel and the Vampire. Six types were evaluated: the Canadair Tutor, the Swedish Saab 105, the Italian Macchi 326, the French Potez 94, the

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Compass Failure Spells End of Australia Having a Third Domestic Airline Living only half the time of its original namesake, Compass II’s demise sadly highlights two major truths of the nineteen-nineties Australian airline environment. Firstly, that no independent third domestic airline will ever realistically serve this nation’s airways and secondly that to be a successful

Mig-15 Crashes at Canberra On Saturday March 13 MiG-15 (SBLim-2) VH-LSN crashed at Canberra, ACT. The two occupants, pilot Errol Kavanagh and passenger Michael Maughan were killed. The former Polish Air Force two seat jet trainer was at Canberra as part of a get together by the Australian Warbirds organisation. The cause of the accident