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Aircraft Accidents, Fatalities Rise Aircraft accidents in NZ last year totalled 68 17 more than in 1992. Civil Aviation Authority figures show there were five aircraft accidents which resulted in 13 deaths. Nine of the killed were in a Nomad which crashed on the Franz Josef glacier, on the west coast of the South Island,
10 Years Ago • One of the RAF’s oldest units, No 101 Squadron, was officially reformed on May 1 at RAF Brize Norton as the VC10 tanker unit. The squadron, which last operated Vulcan B Mk 2s, was disbanded in August 1982. Some of its crews participated in the “Black Buck” missions during the 1982
50 Years Ago… May 1 – Britain. A 455 Squadron Beaufighter piloted by P/ ON Wilson crash lands after takeoff and bursts into flames. Navigator, F/Sgt T Holmes (RAF), who jumps clear, tries in vain to drag his pilot free and suffers facial burns. May 2 Britain. S/Ldr Don Smith takes command of 453 Squadron.
Courting Danger This months’s Air Safety is a true story, written from the author’s own fund of flying experience. Though not so much a “close shave” as previous fiction- based-on-fact in this series, it underlines the sort of errors to which even experienced pilots can be subject when un- der pressure. It also provides a
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North American A-5 Vigilante Few aircraft can lay claim to introducing so many new technological features at one time than North American’s Vigilante. Conceived and created in the faster, higher, further period of aviation development, the North American A-5 Vigilante was the pinnacle of military aviation at the time of its first flight in 1958.
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Raising the Bar in Commercial Laundry: How Rinse & Repeat Is Redefining Service for Aviation
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UPRT Australia- Transforming Aviation’s Greatest Risk into Its Greatest Asset
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