By Rob Neil This year’s Australian International Airshow at Avalon was—surprisingly—the first I have been able to attend personally; every other time the show has been held, something has cropped up that has prevented me from attending. So I was extremely interested to compare Avalon with major international shows like Paris, and quality New Zealand shows like Wanaka and Omaka. The 2011 ...

Avalon 2011. Rob Neil reports on the 2011 Australian International Airshow at Avalon, which, this year, celebrated the 90th anniversary of the RAAF. Brako Arrives in New Zealand. With less than 30 gyrocopters on the New Zealand register, these fascinating aircraft have not often featured in Pacific Wings. However, Leigh Mathieson believes the arrival of the first Brako gyrocopter into the ...

By Donald Harward The nose pitched up gently to around two degrees above the horizon as we started a slow climb to flight level 330. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky and the air was smooth in the climb. The jet was operating like the finely tuned machine it was designed to be, passing effortlessly through the atmosphere at .80 ...