Greatly saddened to hear of the passing of Keith Jarvis this week.
Keith was well known as a prolific builder and passionate supporter of homebuilt aircraft.
He also had an interesting life as a bomber pilot in WW2 and a long career in Air Traffic Control.
Greetings from New Zealand. Dominie and I are currently touring New Zealand visiting friends and tapping into the Kiwi aviation scene wherever possible. We arrived in Wellington 2 weeks ago just in time to attend the Wings over Wairarappa (WOW) Airshow at Hood aerodrome, Masterson, about 90 minutes drive northeast of Wellington. The weekend weather…
While the weather in the last month hasn’t been conducive to recreational flying there were a few opportunities between the storms. The club Sonex took myself and daughter to Goolwa where we were given an added bonus of a couple of whale sightings near Port Elliot. This month (October) the weather is warming up and…
Last month we had the club fly away weekend to Swan Hill. I flew there with my wife, Dominie, and in addition we had six other aircraft and a total of fourteen participants. I was very encouraged to see such a good turnout. Aircraft arrived individually from three different airports on the Saturday afternoon. Apart…
Weighing Your Aircraft
The Royal Aeronautical Society and the UniSA Aviation and Aerospace Student Organisation are supporting a UAV presentation by Mr Simon Butterworth of Avitus UAV Systems. Tuesday 27 May 2014 UniSA Mawson Lakes Building MM, Room 1-05 Light Refreshments at 17:30 for 18:00 start. Click here to see the flyer for details
Congratulations to Peter Bakker on the first flight of his Sonex on Thursday 9 October 2014. Test pilot Steve Nelson has to cut the flight short due to an oil pressure drop. Problem now fixed and test flying continues. Click here for more details on the SonexAus Wiki.
