November 1981
LAST month, Wanganui Aero Work completed a contract spreading nitrogenous fertiliser over several thousand hectares of timber stands owned by the Tasman Forestry and Logging Company In the Taupo area. Between them the two companies introduced to the industry a new method of handling, storage and distribution of urea using the one tonne bale bag.
IT'S ONLY got one engine and looks not unlike an overgrown 172, yet it will fly higher, cruise faster and carry more weight a greater distance than the majority of light twins. It's Cessna's top-of-the-line single, the Turbo Centurion.
A report by Brian J Souter on the 1981 NBAA Convention
 October 1981 |
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