Australian Aviation — January 2018

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2018 61 Bravo Zulu HMASSuccess’sembarked Seahawk about to transfer stores from the deck of HMASAnzacwhile in tr ...

62 AUSTRALIAN AVIATION F lying low over storm-tossed seas off Newcastle, NSW special forces soldiers aboard a Navy Seahawk helic ...

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2018 63 and industry who have supported the machine.” As a training helicopter, the Squirrels notched up a few ...

Scholes was really struggling and he got hold of me and said ‘go into the caucus and into the cabinet and you are going to hamme ...

things with these little aircraft. “We landed the aircraft in degraded modes day and night on the deck,” he said. “We did things ...

66 AUSTRALIAN AVIATION workforce were the crown jewels of the Fleet Air Arm. “AMAFTU develops the limits by which we operate our ...

perspective. But from a supportability perspective, it’s time,” he said. Seahawk Romeo brings the very latest sensors plus more ...

68 AUSTRALIAN AVIATION T he ominous ash clouds that spewed forth from Mount Agung hung ominously over the island of Bali, threat ...

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2018 69 very finite battery power and with the pressurisation system failing, among many other complications. T ...

70 AUSTRALIAN AVIATION (IAVW) to provide warnings to the aviation community, comprising of nine Volcanic Ash Advisory Centres ar ...

Volcanic ash Passengers seem more patient with volcano-induced flight interruptions.AAP IMAGE Volcanic ash covers a Boeing 737 a ...

72 AUSTRALIAN AVIATION S ome aircraft don’t merely carve a niche for themselves, they create a legacy. This comes about through ...

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2018 73 ‘The King Air has always had a proud stance.’ the aircraft to safely continue the take- off in the even ...

74 AUSTRALIAN AVIATION Art meets science Textron demonstrator pilot Karen DeMauro is already at the base of the air stair entran ...

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2018 75 auto-ignition and in the event of an engine failure it will firstly attempt to relight the engine. If t ...

76 AUSTRALIAN AVIATION which the King Air may be compared. One impressive cabin feature that cannot be readily seen, in addition ...

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2018 77 systems, even setting the QNH can be a challenge for the uninitiated. To set Vspeeds on our way out to ...

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QATAR AIRWAYS WRITER:TOMBALLANTYNE Ambitious Qatar Airways may have been ostracised by its neighbours, and banned from their air ...

H e is a famously fractious individual not slow to speak his mind and even the fact his airline is heading for a loss in its cur ...