As a birthday gift, I recently went on a “Red Baron” scenic flight lasting an hour or so from Sydney’s Bankstown Airport in a Pitts Special S-2 biplane. Callsign was “Triple Foxtrot” (VH-FFF) and during the flight, pilot Noel Kruse performed some aerobatics north of Barrenjoey. This particular flight proved a classic example of how

Mcdonnell Douglas To Stretch Md 520n McDonnell Douglas Helicopters is studying a stretched, more powerful, extended range development of the MD 520N Notar helicopter, tentatively dubbed the MD 630N. The new helicopter would be based on the proven MD 500 series but the fuselage would be stretched to seat eight including the pilot in three

The Ageing Commuter Fleet: A Case for Concern During the recent media feeding frenzy over the Seaview accident and its fallout, newspapers and television headlines announced to the general public that “200 commuter aircraft in Australian airline service are in danger of losing a wing”. The source of the allegation was a private submission by

Industry Reaping Rewards on Nulka and Lads Australian industry is starting to reap rewards from the development of two long standing Defence science inspired inventions which, apart from having applications with the Royal Australian Navy, will bring contracts from overseas. These RAN projects are known as Nulka, the active missile decoy system, and LADS, the