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Ross Ewing

Find articles written by Ross Ewing using the links below. Articles are listed in descending order of publication

A Day at Glenora

December 2010-January 2011
Recognising the Walsh Brothers’ NZ Aviation Legacy.Ross Ewing summarises the outstanding history of two of New Zealand’s greatest aviation pioneers—Leo and Vivian Walsh—whose efforts and achievements, he says, deserve far greater recognition.
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Judgement and Decisions-Aviation Human Factors over the Hudson River

April 2009
Aviation Factors expert Ross Ewing celebrates the ditching of the US Airways A320 by Captain Chesley Sullenberger as an outstanding example of effective CRM combined with “real” piloting skills.
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Fatigue in Aviation—An Overview for GA Pilots

October 2008
Fatigue is a serious problem for all pilots, but its insidious nature and its seriousness are often not fully appreciated by GA pilots. Dr Ross Ewing, an aviation human factors expert, talks about recognising and dealing with fatigue.
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Captain A. Gordon Vette Honoured

August 2007
One of New Zealand’s greatest aviators has finally been honoured for his outstanding and selfless contributions to aviation safety around the world. Ross Ewing reminds us how much the global aviation community owes to Gordon Vette.
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Richard Pearse - A Pioneer In Aeroplane Design

March 2003
Much Of The Debate That Surrounds Richard Pearse Centres On Whether Or Not He Beat The Wright Brothers Into The Air To Become The First Powered Aeroplane Flier Of All Time, But A More Fruitful Question To Ask Might Therefore Be, ""Where Did Pearse Stand As An Inventor Of The Aeroplane?"" In This Article, The First Of Several Forthcoming Essays That Pacific Wings Will Present To Mark 100 Years Of Flight, Ross Ewing At Richard Pearse'S Life And Searches For An Answer To This Question.
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What's up Doc?

October 2001
Zero Accidents. By Dr Ross Ewing.
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Tomorrow's aviation leaders

October 2001

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Guest Editorial

October 2001

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Whats Up Doc?

May-June 2001
Doing What Comes Naturally - ""Naturalistic"" Decision Making.
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Comment - Guest Editorial By Dr Ross Ewing

February 2001

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What's up doc?

December 2000-January 2001
Na, complacent, stale - why experienced pilots crash? Part II. By Ross Ewing.
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What's up doc?

October 2000
Bowler hats and cholesterol by Dr Ross Ewing.
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What's Up Doc?

September 2000
Missing The Target
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What's Up Doc?

July 2000
Are You A ""Petrol Hear""? - Fuel For Though.
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What's Up Doc?

June 2000
If It Ain'T Broke - Don'T Fix It!
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What's Up Doc?

May 2000
Why Do Experienced Pilots Crash?
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What's Up Doc?

March 2000
Medicating The Pilot.
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Solving The Riddle Of The F-16S Needs ""20/20"" Vision - Dear Mark, Phil And Derick…

February 2000

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What's up doc?

November 1999
Hypoxia - the killer! By Dr Ross Ewing.
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What's up doc?

October 1999
Looking within "pilot errors" by Ross Ewing
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Whats Up Doc?

September 1999
Stress In The Workplace, By Dr Ross Ewing
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Whats Up Doc?

August 1999
The Armchair Disease, By Dr Ross Ewing
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Whats Up Doc?

July 1999
Time To ""Hang Up The Headphones"" - Retirement From Flying.
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March 1999

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February 1999

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What's up doc?

November 1998

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October 1998

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September 1998

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August 1998

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What's up doc?? - Light at the end of the colour vision tunnel?

October 1997
This month Dr Ross Ewing includes a paper written by Dr Arthur Pape on "Colour Cretins".
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Whats Up Doc?

August 1997

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July 1997

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Whats Up Doc?

May 1997
Aviation Medicine With Dr Ross Ewing.
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What's Up Doc?

April 1997
Aviation Medicine With Dr Ross Ewing.
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Whats Up Doc?

March 1997
Aviation Medicine With Dr Ross Ewing.
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What's Up Doc?

February 1997
Aviation Medicine By Ross Ewing.
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What's up doc?

December 1996-January 1997
Aviation medicine with Dr Ross Ewing
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Flight of the zombies

November 1996
Ross Wing concludes his account of the amazing wartime adventures of Cliff Emeny
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Flight of the zombies

October 1996
Part 1 of Ross Ewing's description of the wartime escapades of Cliff Emeny
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FPA - The solution to aerial topdressing problems?

October 1996
Ross Wing profiles another Emeny aviation enterprise
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Photo Album

September 1996
A Selection Of Ross Ewing's Colour Slides Of Vietnam.
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Whats Up Doc?

June 1996
An Aviation Medicine Column By
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Wings Flies The Yak 52

April 1996
Ross Ewing Samples The Russian Trainer.
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Whats Up Doc?

February 1996
Aviation Medicine By Ross Ewing.
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What's up doc?

November 1995
Aviation medicine with Dr Ross Ewing
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Skyhawk Revisited

February 1995
I HAVE never been one to dwell much on the past. To my mind there is plenty going on in the here and now to keep me more than occupied. But when I was told by NZ WINGS Editor, Ross Macpherson, that there was a chance of stepping back in time by 25 years - of riding in a Skyhawk again - I jumped at it.
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What's up doc?

December 1994-January 1995
By Dr Ross Ewing
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What's up doc?

October 1994
Human factors with Ross Ewing
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AVMED Conference

October 1994
Report by Ross Ewing
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What's Up Doc?

July 1994
Av Med With Ross Ewing
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What's Up Doc?

September 1993
Avmed With Ross Ewing
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So You Would Like To Be A Display Pilot?

September 1993
Ross Ewing Discusses What It All Means.
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What's Up Doc?

August 1993
Avemed With Ross Ewing
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July 1993

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Strip Landings

May 1993
Ross Ewing Reports On The Parakai Course
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What's Up Doc?

April 1993
Ross Ewing Looks At Human Factors.
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Heli Expo 93

Ross Ewing Reports From Florida
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Catalina

April 1993
Ross Ewing Gets Air And Water Borne.
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What's Up Doc?

February 1993
Ross Ewing Takes A Look At Drugs And The Pilot.
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The Fall and climb of Alan Clarke

December 1992-January 1993
By Ross Ewing
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Helicopter simulator

November 1992
Ross Ewing samples avNET's Bell Iroquois simulator
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FAC reunion

November 1992
Ross Ewing reports on the recent USAF/RNZAF/RAAF FAC reunion in San Diego
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Avalon Airshow

November 1992
A report by Ross Ewing
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Wots Up Doc?

September 1992
An Avmed Column By
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Wings Goes Gliding

July 1992
Ross Ewing Samples The Passion Of Soaring.
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What's Up Doc?

June 1992
Aviator's Avmed
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A Thrush By Any Other Name

March 1992
Ross Ewing Flies The Polish-Built Wilga.
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What's up doc?

November 1991
Aviator's avmed, by Ross Ewing
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Kiwi bird dog

October 1991
Ross Ewing samples the latest type to arrive on the Warbird scene
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Colourwings No. 120

October 1991
Convair 580 ZK-KFL orbits home base Palmerston North - Ross Ewing photograph
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What's up doc?

September 1991
A montly avmed column by
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Howard Hughes' 300

September 1991
Ross Ewing takes a look at, firstly, the Schweizer 300 and then at Paul Miller's Thames spray operation using the versatile little chopper
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What's up doc?

July 1991
A new avmed series
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Encounter with a lovely lady

July 1991

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Convair operations: Another Fieldair success story

June 1991
WINGS flies the Convair CV-580
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Colourwings no115

May 1991
US Navy uniform for Harvard NZ1066/ZK-ENE flown by Bill Rolfe, off the manukau heads. Ross Ewing photograph.
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The Great Stunt Company

April 1991
Ross Ewing flies newcomer two up pitts zk-mad.
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Flying the R22

November 1990
By Ross Ewing
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Vampire in the wind

August 1990
Ross Ewing samples a Aussie T-bird.
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Comment, News and Briefs

August 1990
getting it right - a guest editorial
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Workhorse from Troy

March 1990
Trojan T-28c
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AVMED Conference

December 1989/January 1990

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THE HELICOPTER AS AN AIR AMBULANCE: can we learn from overseas?

December 1988-January 1989
This February CAA/MOT plans to hold a one day symposium on Helicopter Air Ambulances. In this article Associate Editor Ross Ewing backgrounds the topic and looks at how many other countries have been down this road before. He discovers that the United States has a rich history in this area, much of which is applicable to the New Zealand scene.
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Skyferry

July 1986
Airline Profile - Skyferry - Ross Ewing visits Outdoor Aviation's Cessna Caravan operation
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FARNBOROUGH '84

October 1984
The WINGS team report on one of the world's premier air shows
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Colour wings no39

April 1983
Double take - an unlikely twosome format over RNZAF base whenuapai. Ross Ewing photograph.
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KIWI STEARMAN

February 1983
Associate Editor Ross Ewing samples New Zealand's latest warbird-Ardmore-based Stearman N4036
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On the Fringe

October 1981
Motorised hang gliding is where power flying began over 77 years ago. Recent years have seen a resurgence of aviating by the seat of one's pants — firstly in hang gliders, now — with the assistance of a new generation of lightweight engines — the microlight,is rapidly coming of age. John King reports from the NZ homebuilder's Mecca at Te Kowhai on the recent inaugural meeting of the Microlight Association of New Zealand.
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Doctors Fly In - Aviation Medical Society Conference

December 1980-January 1981
AS noted in last month's WINGS, the New Zealand branch of the Australian Aviation Medical Society met in Auckland recently. The society provides a meeting ground for doctors in the armed forces, those involved in civil aviation, those who hold pilot's licences, and others interested in the medical problems of flying. In particular the society is valuable for those medical examiners designated by the Civil Aviation Division of the Ministry of Transport to conduct routine medical checks of pilots.
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Devons are Forever...well almost

December 1980-January 1981
Fast fading from the RNZAF inventory is the twin engined de Havilland Devon. The traditional home of the Devon, RNZAF Base Wigram, no longer sounds to the rhythm of twin Gipsy Queens and there are but a few of the distinctive de Havillands remaining at Ohakea, with No. 42 Squadron. These too are expected to be disposed of in the near future, while in the meantime the F27 Friendship has replaced the Devon on the line at Wigram.
Before this aging aircraft leaves RNZAF service for good, WINGS takes a look at its military history — as seen by two of the many aviators who were at one time familiar with the Devon.
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Aviation Showcase Report

November 1980
Despite prevailing cloud and intermittent showers this month's Aviation Showcase was without doubt a roaring success.
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The Pilot Trainers: Directory of aeroclubs, flying schools and flying clubs

June 1980
SINCE THE last WINGS directory of New Zealand flying training facilities in November 1977, the number of flying training establishments has reduced by around nine; several of these have been amalgamated and some simply demised.
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D & J's CPC - a programme to fly

June 1980

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TASMANEX '79

October 1979
Photographs of participants in the recent naval and air exercises off the NZ coast.
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A Role to Play: A4 Skyhawks of the RNZAF

July 1978
It was eight years ago that New Zealand's well known wartime bomber squadron —No. 75 Squadron —turned in their aging Vampire FB5 and T.11 aircraft for 14 brand new A4K and TA4K McDonnell-Douglas Skyhawk jet fighter/ bombers; the RNZAF's obsolescent B(1)12 and T13 Canberra light bombers were also being retired, and by the end of 1970 the Skyhawks had become this country's front line 'sharp end' strike force.
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Tactical Transport: Hercules fly a multi-nation airdrop mission

May 1978
Three air arms met in Auckland recently to take part in Operation Bullseye , a bi-annual airdrop fly-off between New Zealand and Canadian aircraft, on this occasion being joined by another Hercules, of the RAAF.
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Air Central Ltd: Tripping on the third level tightrope - An Airline Profile

February 1978
BECOMING painfully apparent to aviators and others in this country is the need for properly based feeder air services throughout New Zealand.
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Pictures of a homebuilders' fly-in

March 1977

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Alpine Airliners: Mount Cook Airline's HS748's

February 1977
The idea of large passenger aircraft moving about among snow-capped mountains is incongruous, yet it becomes a reality in New Zealand's Southern Alps almost every day. In an operation unique to Mount Cook Airlines and its fleet of Hawker Siddely 748s, passengers are ferried to and from mountain airfields — some very meagre, and one no more than a grass airfield — in a tourist airline venture that has grown from one DC-3 in 1963 to today's four 748s. WINGS assistant editor Ross Ewing recently flew for two days with an MCA airliner crew to find out a little more about the country's third airline, and the 748.
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The Harvard - Pilot trainer for three decades

August 1976
THE Harvard. For thousands of New Zealanders it is probably the RNZAF's best known aircraft. It features in the log books and experience of thousands of young men who have trained as pilots with the RNZAF since 1941, and to people throughout the country it is synonymous with a rasping engine sound (caused by the direct drive propellor and resulting high tip speeds) and the trailing smoke of Air Force aerobatic teams. By the time the last Harvards are withdrawn from the RNZAF at the end of this year the type will have seen service in this country for close on 36 years. It will have been the Air Force's longest-serving type
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Fledgeling Wings of the Nation: NAC pilot training

January 1976
EVER travelled NAC and wondered how well trained that pilot up the front really is, and whether one day you could ever fill his shoes?
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The Merchants of Marlborough

August 1975
Flying with the Argosies of Safe Air
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A Year of the Moth

May 1975
Tiger Club celebrates 50 years of Moths
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Vietnam FAC: Kiwis over the jungle

March 1975
BETWEEN 1968 and 1972 RNZAF pilots had the opportunity to test their skills as FACs in an operational environment when members of No 75 Squadron were detached to work with the United States Air Force in Vietnam. The first pair to go were the squadron commander, Sqn Ldr John Scrimshaw, and one of his senior pilots, Flt Lt Ross Ewing, who was prevailed upon by WINGS and who (eventually) agreed to write of his experiences as a FAC in the war zone
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Sub Hunting Sortie

December 1974
Anti-Submarine warfare was highlighted last month when the annual four-nation Fincastle Trophy cometition was held in New Zealand waters for the first time. Anti-submarine flying is a "sensitive" military area and one normally closed to civilians. In this article, especially written for WINGS, the RNZAF;s public relations officer, Flt Lt Ross Ewing, tells of the Fincastle competition and what goes on when maritime aircraft set out to hunt submarines
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