Close Company I am sure the following event has occurred more than once but a recent retelling to me by a USAF friend certainly brought the event alive. The scene is a very dark though calm winter’s night over the North Atlantic several hundred klics west of Ireland. A then Strategic Air Command B-52 is

Nz Warbirds Assoc Founder Member Crashes, Dies Ian Reynolds, who in 1978 was a founder member of the Nz Warbirds Association, died soon after his de Havilland Chipmunk crashed during the Warbirds Over Wanaka Air Show at Easter. He was 47. Mr Reynolds was part owner of the Chipmunk, built in 1950 and originally used

On the Airbands Richard Watson is General Manager of New Zealand company Flight-Deck Productions, and is a keen airband enthusiast, owning an AOR AR-1500 scanner radio. Richard is very happy with our book “Listening In to Aircraft Radio”, taking a copy with him to the USA, so he could extract important American air frequencies to

Active Radar Guided Missiles Skyflash – The Changing Face of Beyond Visual Range Air Combat The Air-to-Air Missile (AAM) is the principal weapon of the modern air superiority fighter and as such its performance and capabilities can be one of the determining factors in individual engagements and force effectiveness as a whole. Advances in modern