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Australia’s civil aviation in 1950
How’s this for flashback Friday?
As part of researching a story on the evolution of air traffic control featuring in the upcoming May/June edition of...
No second chances
Why gliding experience makes us safer pilots. Kreisha Ballantyne experiences the seven valuable skills advanced by gliding.
Clunk! That’s both the sound of the tug rope...
The aerodiesels are coming
Flight Safety Australia contributor, Thomas P. Turner, examines aerodiesels and their compelling economic and safety advantages
The aerodiesels are coming. They burn the same fuel...
100 things that make safer skies: 81-90
Search and rescue
Search and rescue has come a long way since the 1929 ‘Coffee Royal’ incident, where two of Charles Kingsford Smith’s friends died...
100 things that make safer skies: 71-80
QNH/QFE
Quite why the letter Q is used in abbreviations for altimeter settings is a quintessentially curly question. The answer is in the radio Q...
100 things that make safer skies: 51-60
Gyroscopes
A spinning top of the type used as children’s toys for hundreds of years would appear to have little in common with aviation safety....
100 things that make safer skies: 41-50
Flight management systems (FMS)
In 1973 the price of oil skyrocketed. In the ruthlessly competitive aviation industry, avionics experts were driven to work out how...
100 things that make safer skies: 31-40
De-icing/Anti-icing
Did you know that water can exist as a liquid below freezing point (0°C)? Water in this state is known as supercooled liquid water...
100 things that make safer skies: 21-30
Cabin crew
The first passenger attendants flew not on aeroplanes but on airships, before World War I. By the 1920s, boys were being employed as...
100 things that make safer skies: 11-20
Safety management systems
Since the first plane crash that killed a passenger of the Wright brothers, aviation safety has followed the model of analysing what...
