RAAF Air Lift Group
The Air Mobility Mission: We’re flying important people and stuff to tough places, on time.

Ansett – Death of an Airline
How time flies….this September sees the 10th anniversary of the collapse and eventual demise of one of Australia’s best-known, long-established and respected airlines, Ansett. We look at the circumstances which led to one of the nation’s most high profile corporate failures.

Made in Australia – GippsAero Update
As a supplement to our regular Made In Australia series, we present an update to the Gippsland Aeronautics GA8 Airvan story that first appeared in AERO Australia Issue 7 in 2005 and was update din 2009’s Issue 22. Included is a full production list current at May 2011 and news of developments over the last couple of years … and there’s much to report.

Air Pilgrimage – Celebrating the RAAF’s 90th Birthday
As part of the Royal Australian Air Force’s 90th anniversary celebrations, the RAAF in association with the Antique Aeroplane Association of Australia organised an ‘Air Pilgrimage’ of 65 vintage and warbird aircraft from Temora NSW to Point Cook VIC, the RAAF’s original base and its spiritual home.

The ‘Frightening”
In November 2009 the international warbird community was shocked by the crash of English Electric Lightning T.5 ZU-BEX in South Africa. This was one of four Lightnings operated by Thunder City which took passengers on supersonic flights for $17,000 a go. In 1967, Jeff Watson flew in the very same aircraft when it was in service with 5 Squadron RAF as XS451.

Avanti
If you’re a business aircraft manufacturer you’d better not go too far ‘outside the square’ with what you offer to a traditionally conservative market. It can be commercial suicide, as some have found to their cost. But one business turboprop which can be regarded as radical in many ways has survived – Italy’s Piaggio P.180 Avanti.

AERO Sky Warriors – The Red Baron’s Aussie Connections
The story of Rittmeister Manfred von Richthofen, the fabled Red Baron, the highest scoring ace of any side in WW1, is the stuff of legends. All aspects of his life, and his controversial death, have been exhaustively studied by aviation enthusiasts and military historians for decades. The 80 victories credited to him involved some 124 Allied airmen, among them reportedly a few Australians, and Australians are irrevocably linked with his death.

AERO Shows
Omaka Classic Fighters plus more of 2011 Avalon Airshow and AAAA FLy-in Echuca