1996 Australian Aviation Flying Training Directory The Australian flying training industry went through a boom in the 1980s, with total fly ing training hours in ing training hours in n 1983 to 480,000 in 1990 This 4% average decline in flying training activity was not uniform across the states. The worst performer was South Australia,

Jon Hutchison In the first of a regular series of interviews with Aviation industry leaders, Australian Aviation’s Julian Green speaks with Jon Hutchison, Managing Director of the Australian Tourism Commission. No stranger to aviation issues, having spent three years as General Manager and Director of Ansett Express, Jon Hutchison is now managing a $100 million

An Idea Which Has Surfaced in Recent Times Is That Of Replacing the ADF’s strategic deterrent, the F-111, with BGM-109 Tomahawk Land Attack Cruise Missiles (TLAM-C) fired from Collins class submarines. The first time this proposal surfaced was during the last Federal election, when the Opposition briefly floated the idea. More recently, a noted Australian

N7 – Westland Wessex HAS.31 The Navy announced on November 26 1959 that from 1963, the intended withdrawal date of the Gannets and Sea Venoms, only anti-submarine warfare (ASW) helicopters would be operated. Late the following year, plans were made for the conversion of HMAS Melbourne into an anti-submarine carrier operating helicopters in anticipation of