Eastern Air Lines Flight 401: The Crash That Changed Airline Cockpit Discipline
The Burned-Out Bulb That Brought Down a Jumbo Jet On the night of 29 December 1972, a brand-new…
The Boeing 747 and Pan Am: The Birth of the Jumbo Jet
How Juan Trippe and Boeing Changed Global Aviation Few aircraft have transformed aviation as dramatically as the Boeing…
The Rise and Fall of Pan Am
The Airline That Built Global Aviation For much of the twentieth century, Pan American World Airways was not…
The Introduction of the DC-10
Entry into Airline Service 1974 the DC-10 has recently begun operating in commercial airline service, and many pilots…
The GAF Nomad: Australia’s Controversial Utility Aircraft
In the late 1960s, Australia’s Government Aircraft Factories (GAF) began work on a new aircraft the Nomad intended…
The Nomad Double Six Crash (1976): Accident, Investigation and Enduring Controversy
On 6 June 1976, a Government Aircraft Factories (GAF) Nomad N.22B operated by Sabah Air crashed during the…
Aviation Radio in Australia: The Complete History and Evolution of Aircraft Communications
Aviation radio in Australia did not simply improve safety it transformed the nation’s ability to fly vast distances…
Why did the Nomad have so many crashes?
Accident History of the GAF Nomad The accident history of the GAF Nomad was shaped by a convergence…
The Kyeema Disaster: Radio, Responsibility, and the 1938 Inquiry
Summary The crash of the DC 2 Kyeema VH-UYC in the Dandenong Ranges on 25 October 1938 marked…
Aviation Radio in Australia: Regulation and Modern Airspace Communication
Introduction By the late twentieth century and into the modern era, aviation radio in Australia had evolved into…