October 1997
By Garry Goodman, Manager of Palmerston North Airport Ltd.
UK correspondent Peter Cooper reports on the '97 Royal International Air Tattoo. This year saw a large "Big Cat" contingent as well as the "Champion Fighter Pilot of the World."
Peter Clark flies the new Cessna 172R and welcomes the return of this classic aircraft
Stan Smith spent 14 years restoring his de Havilland Dragon - and it has been worth the wait, by John King.
Don Simms looks back at three decades of combined US Navy, Royal Australian Navy and Royal New Zealand Air Force service, and discovers that some of the RNZAF's Skyhawks are genuine Warbirds, having served with the US Navy in Vietnam.
This month Dr Ross Ewing includes a paper written by Dr Arthur Pape on "Colour Cretins".
With Richard Watt - additions, deletions, and changes of ownership on the New Zealand civil register.