Whatever Happened to the Australian Aircraft Industry? As this magazine prepares to enter its third decade of publication it is thought provoking for your editor to look back upon some of the more incredible things he has witnessed in our wonderful industry. Perhaps the best, and certainly the most confusing, has been following the travails

Engines Running About 18 months ago I was flying from Bangkok to Sydney. It was one of these early departures which gets you up at 4:30am to get your Qantas flight in time. At the airport I had still some time to kill and was strolling around the departure hall to see if I could

Monitored by This Writer at Sydney One Recent Midmorning, as Asiana Airline’s Boeing 767-300ER Was Onshort Finals for Runway 34 Left, Following a Flight Fromcairns and Seoul in South Korea The Crewmember Using the Radio Sounded Like He Was Thecaptain, With the First Officer Likely to be the Pilot Actuallyflying the Aircraft. The Captain Requested

Around the World Record Attempt Texan Ron Bower is aiming to break his own record by setting a new around the world helicopter speed record flying a Bell 430. Ron set his first around the world record flying a JetRanger in mid 1994. His route on that trip was: east coast USA, Canada, Greenland, Iceland,