Australian Aviation — January 2018

A RA ER’S EDGE WRITER: OWEN ZUPP Matt Hall Racing’s season of change ‘Preparations for the new season were turned on their head ...

42 AUSTRALIAN AVIATION T o be successful at the elite level of any motor sport, both the machine and the human in the seat need ...

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2018 43 ‘Muscle memory’ is another aspect that Matt had to deal with in transitioning to the Edge 540. As any a ...

44 AUSTRALIAN AVIATION preceding rounds. Even so, he rates the following race in Germany as the season’s highlight. After qualif ...

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2018 45 flights in the Extra 300L continue to grow in popularity, while multi- engine IFR charter flying has be ...

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48 AUSTRALIAN AVIATION A s a corporate jet pilot working at a major Australian multinational for more than two decades, Clive Br ...

Aviationin an interview. “They have obviously got their executive assistants who are arranging their meetings in New York for ex ...

on a Global Express, but I had zero hours in the actual jet, so if you’re a very wealthy individual and you’ve just bought a $60 ...

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2018 51 He also did air ambulance work for about seven years, before beginning a two-decade career flying corpo ...

52 AUSTRALIAN AVIATION I N T E R S WRITER: SOLANGE CUNIN Voyager 1 probe proves you can teach old tech new tricks ‘Voyager will ...

JANUARY-FEBRUARY2018 53 T E L L A R Voyager ...

54 AUSTRALIAN AVIATION F ar away, 13 billion miles from Earth, there is a tiny man-made spacecraft drifting away from Earth and ...

What about Australia? You might be thinking “space has no impact on Aussies, why should I care?”. You should care because we’re ...

56 AUSTRALIAN AVIATION ‘At the age of 21, she had made her first million.’ ...

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2018 57 I t really all started in Moscow in the late 1980s when Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao was a second- year stude ...

Within three years, at the age of 21, she had made her first million and moved on to trading in bigger things such as steel, mac ...

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2018 59 Aviation Academy in the Saigon Hi- Tech Park in Ho Chi Minh City. The first element of the academy, a f ...

60 AUSTRALIAN AVIATION BRAVO ZULU WRITER: MAX BLENKIN Navy farewells the Seahawk Bravo and Battle Budgie ...