There and Back dedicated to Aviation, Airmanship and the Craft of Flying - by Owen Zupp & Robert Brus

While the flight ‘There and Back’ has concluded, the journey is just beginning in many ways.

Hi All, Here are some teaser pics from Paul Sadler’s Tuesday photo shoot of Strategic Airlines’s A330-200 from an R44 helicopter at the Gold Coast. Look out for the best pics and a detailed feature article on Strategic Airlines in our Australian Aviation’s October edition. Along with my Air Test of the Diamond DA40XLS. www.australianaviation.com.au

  The September edition of ‘Australian Aviation’ is now on the stands. Features this month include; PILATUS PC-21 Training for the Nintendo generation. AIRTEST Tiger in the air – ACA 8KCAB Super Decathlon. BIRDSTRIKE Combating the threat of birdstrikes. OSHKOSH A celebration of aviation’s weird and wonderful. There is also my piece on ‘Satellite Tracking’, [...]

In the words of McMaster, Winton was `the official birthplace of Qantas’. The first and only meeting of directors in the town was held on 10 February 1921. Qantas operations were then moved 160km south-east to Longreach, which was more central to the operational area. Qantas’ first office in Longreach was destroyed by fire. A [...]