In this issue

In this issue: Japan's new commercial jet on track for 2020 delivery, Honeywell brings pinpoint navigation accuracy to new industry, Domodedovo International Airport, Italian navy visit, What do you want to be when you grow up? Aero creations - modellers of distinction, the dangers of helicopter downwash, Rostec opens a showroom of modern aircraft components in Moscow plus lots of news internationally.

Breakfast Run

Some time ago I wrote about a run I'd been fortunate enough to do in a friends Lancair Legacy up to a private airfield near Clanwilliam dam called Nooitgedacht.

2 mins

Expanding The Company

After having flown our pressurised Piper Navajo for some time, we decided another - larger - aircraft was needed. But more important, we needed a really good secretary. This is the story of acquiring both.

7 mins

F-35A Lightning II Airframe Completes Third Life Testing In Unique Facility

A full scale durability test airframe of the F-35A aircraft has successfully completed its third life testing, equivalent to 24 000 hours of 'flying', in a unique testing facility at BAE Systems’ site in Brough, East Yorkshire.

2 mins

National Security Cutter Midgett (WMSL 757) Launched

Midgett is the eighth NSC Ingalls has built for the U.S. Coast Guard. It was christened during a ceremony on 9 December, 2017.

2 mins

First Tiger HAD Retrofit Delivered To French Army Aviation

Airbus Helicopters has delivered the first Tiger retrofitted into the HAD version to the French Army Aviation, after having previously completed its formal acceptance process with the French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA).

1 min

The Flight 981 Disaster

Tragedy, Treachery, And The Pursuit Of Truth

2 mins

Aero Creations

Aero Creations

3 mins

Soon To Be King Of The Lowveld!

As a petrol head I yearn for more power and speed in anything I own and my aircraft are no different. I have successfully turbocharged my bush wacker, my 7-year-old daughter’s quad bike and I am looking in to turbo-charging my ride-on lawnmower to cut down on maintenance time in the garden. I have been looking at a performance upgrade on my Bat Hawk for while now and have come up with a solution that was just sheer genius.

4 mins

Stipa-Caproni

Luigi Stipa, an aeronautical engineer, fulfilled his lifetime dream when he petitioned the Italian Fascist government in the 1930’s to produce a prototype experimental aircraft. The government approved and contracted the Caproni Company to construct a rather unusual aircraft.

3 mins

Buckling Under Pressure

Would you try a small experiment for me? Go and find three sheets of printer paper and a roll of sticky tape. I’d like you to start by rolling two of sheets up into cylinders lengthways and just hold each cylinder together with a single strip of lengthways sticky tape: one of them quite thin – say 2-3cm (or about an inch) across, the other quite wide with just a couple of centimetres overlap at the edge.

4 mins

Read all stories from Global Aviator

Global Aviator Magazine Description:

• SAA accidents from 1937 - 1987
• Changes in Store for Pilots during 2013
• Batteries can fly - dreamliners cannot
• The value of a good CRM
• Final data from Red Bull Stratos freefall.
• USS Harry S Truman - Multifunctional taskforce in the Arabian sea
• Handover of Botswana Defence Force PC-7 MkII
• Nigel Hopkins - Aerobatics and Airliners do go
• Denel Pilots spread their wings into Africa
• The growing potential of Russian Helicopters in Latin America
• Snake on a plane!
• The anmanned problem
• Airborne Insurance and Aircraft Finance Coporation Student of the year award
• Rolls Royce Trent 1000 visited
• Gulfstream G280 sets 15 new city-pair speed records as part of the reliability demonstration program

And lots more!!