Banana Formation Monitored by your author, on Bankstown Tower frequency 132.8 MHz, a pair of Cessna Skyhawks inbound in formation from the training area to the west of the field, with the unlikely radio callsign of “Banana Formation”! Yes, you guessed it, you really wouldn’t expect a callsign like that to go uncommented on, by

Airlink Bae 146-200 Enters Service Australian Airlink changed its operating name to Airlink with the delivery and entry into service on September 3 of its first Bae 146-200. Airlink has leased the three aircraft, Vh-Njg, Vh-Njh and Vh-Njj, from National Jet Systems in Adelaide who in turn have leased the aircraft from Trident Aviation Leasing

Airborne Early Warning And Control Part I: Introduction To Phased Array Technology The technology of Airborne Early Warning (AEW&C) systems is at a generational junction point at this time. We are now witnessing the next step in the lengthy evolution of this key technology, that being the transition from mechanically scanned antenna technology to electronically

November, 1944. 50 Years Ago… November 1 — Britain. En route to an armed reconnaissance off Norway, a 455 Sqn Beaufighter (F/O G Hammond & F/Sgt G Henry) collides with a 489 Sqn aircraft. Both are lost. Burma. Four Australians — F/Lts O Shave, S Titterington, R Powell, and A Carlton — are killed when