November 1999
Peter Cooper looks back on Canberra's 50 years
Mike Weir makes a bitter-sweet return to Reno.
The editor tries out the latest from Eurocopter's single-engine dept.
Long in the tooth, the RNZAF's Bell 47G Sioux are still going strong.
Gwydir expansion, Final Fletchers and New Fatman. By Ray Deerness.
New Zealand pilot John Coutts tells of what a day's gliding competition at the 1999 World Championships in Bayreuth was like.
For those that live among the weeds, helicopter pilots topdressers and the like wires can discharge death in an instant. Pacific Wings sought some comment from a handful of sage pilots n their experience with wires and how to avoid them.
Flight Commander David Vandersloot of No. 3 Squadron Training Flight, RNZAF, over the squadron's stomping ground, Riverhead State Forest , in the veteran Sioux, NZ3702. (Peter Clark).