Recreational Aviation Articles
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2008 Stories
January 2009 Edition:
The Kid Glove treatment
December 2008 Edition:
How Germany Came to make the first all- metal aircraft
November 2008 Edition:
When Instruments Lie
October 2008 Edition:
A Tribute To Michel Mineo and his 98 lb Mineo M-5 Glider
September 2008 Edition:
A Local Adventure
August 2008 Edition:
Stability & Lateral Damping
July 2008 Edition:
Building an Aeroplane With
Wood (Part 2)
June 2008 Edition:
Building an Aeroplane With
Wood (Part 1)
May 2008 Edition:
Disaster, Capture, Imprisonment - World
War II Fighter Pilots Ordeal in Crete, 1943
April 2008 Edition:
Random R.A.A.F. Memories of World War II
March 2008 Edition:
A Lose/Lose Situation - A Pilot's Dilemma
February 2008 Edition:
Sheer Metal Magic - Aviator, Aircraft Rigger
Folk Artist, Art MacDonald
January 2008 Edition:
A Tail to Tell... Flying A Tailwheel Aircraft
2007 Stories
December 2007 Edition:
Open Cockpit Flying - The Way It Should
Be
November 2007 Edition:
Megafauna Fly-Away, Mudgee
October 2007 Edition:
How A Snow Tiger Let Me Fly a 767 Under
The Harbour Bridge
September 2007 Edition:
Getting The Most From Your Pilot Lessons
August 2007 Edition:
Building A Plane - Tips to Building Your
Own Aircraft
July 2007 Edition:
The Day After The Great Air Rally &
Avalon Air Tour
June 2007 Edition:
Our Day Out At Natfly (National Ultra Light
Fly-in) 2007
May 2007 Edition:
Test-Flying An Aeroplane
April 2007 Edition:
Aircraft Electronics Maintenance
March 2007 Edition:
Torque - Ensuring Light aircraft Joint Strength
& Flexibility
February 2007 Edition:
The Correct Way To Wash
an Aircraft
January 2007 Edition:
Coastal Plane Rescue: It
All Took 57 Minutes but 57 Minutes is All It Took
2006 Stories
December 2006 Edition:
Dancing The Skies
November 2006 Edition:
High Wing Or Low Wing
October 2006 Edition:
I Had Finally Achieved My Dream... I Could
Fly!
September 2006 Edition:
Unintended Results - Skydiving from an Aeroplane
August 2006 Edition:
Let The Adventure Begin - Flying An Aeroshute
July 2006 Edition:
Creating Great Aviation Photographs
June 2006 Edition:
Castles In The Air - A visit to the RAAF
Museum, Point Cook
May 2006 Edition:
Flying For The Penniless Dreamer
April 2006 Edition:
Forced Landing
March 2006:
Charles E Taylor - Aviation's "Unsung
Hero"
February 2006 Edition:
Learning Flying Skills
January 2006 Edition:
1950's Australian Domestic Airline Operations
Classic Fly-Off: Skychief vs. Viscount
2005 Stories
December 2005 Edition:
The PIK-26
November 2005 Edition:
Building My Jodel D18
October 2005 Edition:
The Winged Wonder Woman
September 2005 Edition:
The Lonestar Kit Helicopter
August 2005 Edition:
My Dream SeaRey - Kit Aircraft
[PDF
- 460kb]
July 2005 Edition:
Classic Fighters 2005 Airshow
- 3rd Biennial Airshow in New Zealand
[PDF
- 151kb]
June 2005 Edition:
A Portable Jodel - Building
a Kit Aircraft [PDF
- 67kb]
May 2005 Edition:
Kiwi Aircraft Builders -
UFO Gyrocopter Factory [PDF
- 380kb]
April 2005 Edition"
Toward The Sun - Around the World in a Microlight
Motor Glider
March 2005 Edition
Story Of Building A Sonex Light Ultracraft
February 2005 Edition
From The Cockpit - The Auster Mk. 3 Warbird
January 2005 Edition:
Sky Diving In the Czech Republic
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