10 Years Ago Continental will commence a three-times-a-week service in late October from New York to Sydney and Melbourne via Honolulu using DC-10s. Also to be introduced will be a twice-weekly service from LA to Australia via Tahiti and New Zealand, and nonstop flights from Honolulu to New Zealand. This expansion will make Continental the

1996-97 Defence Budget Follows Coalition Policy Commitments There were no real surprises in the new Federal Liberal-National Coalition Government’s first Defence Budget for 14 years. As promised in its Defence policy document in the lead up to the Coalition’s huge, if long awaited victory at the election on March 2, the Defence Budget of $10.027

The Case of the Talkative Passenger An everyday charter flight over familiar country could hardly seem more straightforward. But a particular combination of the most ordinary human circumstances almost resulted in tragedy! As the pilot of a NSW charter operator’s Piper Aztec, I had been engaged to pick up four passengers from Narrandera in the

The weekend of August 10 and 11 – the 75th anniversary of the founding of Melbourne’s historic Essendon Airport – was marked by highly successful celebrations organised jointly by the airport’s own Chamber of Commerce, the FAC, local businesses and the City of Moonee Valley, the municipality in which the airport is situated. The celebrations