10 Years Ago Dan Air took delivery of the first fully definitive version of the British Aerospace 146 Series 100 on May 23. Mr F E Newman, Dan Air’s chairman, accepted G-BKMN’s logbook from BAe’s managing director Sir Raymond Lygo. The aircraft was number 6 off the line and first flew on May 5. The
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
The Games Pack – Jetfighter II, F-117 Nighthawk, Gunship 2000 Flight simulator software is amongst the best selling of the games types, and competition between companies is fierce. As a result, new programmes are regularly offered with new features that make the older games seem so obsolete that they disappear from the marketplace. The dilemma
Alenia Aiming to Dominate DC-8/10 Frbghter Conversion Market AA was recently invited to Alenia’s Venice facility to review the company’s passenger-to-freight conversions. Julian Green reports. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this article, please login. Username or Email Password Forgot password? Keep
Fed up with the rising costs of punting that Cessna or Piper through the sky? Worried about where it is all heading? How for instance will flying training be conducted in a decade’s time? Then relax as Chris Mills takes you into the future with a visit to the successor to today’s aero club, a