Mdc, Valujet Take A Deep Breath And Launch The Md-95 McDonnell Douglas, ValuJet and presumably Rolls-Royce and BMW last month took the latest gamble in this risky business of building and flying aeroplanes. Between them they launched the MD-95, a 100 seat variation on the DC-9 theme that will now give dangerous competition to the

10 Years Ago The IAE V2500 turbofan had its first test run at East Hartford on December 12, 20 months after the design was started. Flight testing of the V2500 will begin in April 1987 with the engine mounted in the number 3 position on a Boeing 707. Pratt & Whitney Canada will modify the

N6 – De Havilland Vampire With the order of 39 de Havilland Sea Venom jet fighters in 1951, the requirement arose for the Navy to operate an advanced jet training aircraft. The Vampire was already in production at de Havilland Australia’s (DHA) plant at Bankstown for the RAAF, and with future RAN pilots to train

A Lead-in Fighter for the RAAF Overflying ice flows that turn the dead blue sea into terrazzo, the arrival of QF2602 over the Antarctic is imminent. Suddenly the anticipation of the 343 passengers aboard 747-338 VH-EBV turns to sheer excitement as the rare opportunity to witness a spectacular landscape, hitherto seen only in the likes