JANUARY 2018   Interactive Media - Mouse-over-Text or Image may highlight additional information

JANUARY 28  2018	Posted 14:27 28/01/18
EXPENSIVE ABORTED TAKE-OFF FOR RAAF MILITARY JET IN NEVADA USA  Mouse over Headline for Image
Mouse over Text & Image to Expand VERY EXPENSIVE FIRE FOR RAAF An Australian RAAF military pilot on a training exercise with the USA military at Nellis Air Base near Las Vegas aborted take-off of the EA-18G Growler he was flying due to an unspecified reason that resulted in the electronic jammed machine catching fire - no one was seriously injured - "American media reports say the plane involved was an RAAF EA-18G Growler fighter"
COPY OF MEDIA REPORT IN PDF

JANUARY 22  2018	Posted 7:52 22/01/18
GLIDER PILOT KILLED IN CENTRAL NSW  Mouse over Headline for Image
Mouse over Text & Image to Expand FIRE ON JET-POWERED GLIDER A 75-year-old pilot of a self-launching jet-engine powered Schleicher ASH 25J high-performance sailplane was found deceased after an emergency landing into a paddock near Piper’s Airfield at Eglinton near Bathurst "..the powered glider was on fire when it crashed which then ignited a small grass fire"
COPY OF MEDIA REPORT IN PDF

JANUARY 21  2018	Posted 14:00 21/01/18
SUCCESSFUL SECOND TEST-LAUNCH FOR KIWI ROCKET 'ELECTRON'  Mouse over Headline for tech-facts image
The Electron rocket named 'Still Testing' successfully deployed three satellites into orbit from New Zealand One of the satellites will take images of Earth, the other two will capture weather and ship tracking data
NEWS-DESK REPORT OF MAIDEN FLIGHT IN MAY 2017
POP-UP VIDEO OF LAUNCH IN KIWILAND

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