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At the ‘Timetable List’ web site is a small map of the 1930s routes of an airline that began with a long name but soon became abbreviated to its initials, Q.A.N.T.A.S. Just like many airlines today Qantas Empire Airways Ltd., as it was then called, showed their routes (as solid lines) and those of partner airlines (as dashed lines). It excludes the Americas but covers Africa, Europe and Asia.


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This short flight from Regina, Saskatchewan to the small community of Liberty further north was the precursor of the Saskatchewan Air Ambulance Service. Now known as LIFEGUARD, it is the oldest non-military air ambulance service in the world. Given the vast scale of this Canadian province and its low population density, it was – and is – a vital medical air service.

The flight to Liberty was made in a Noorduyn Norseman (there are some in the library for both FS2004 and FSX) ...

After a visit some years ago to the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago I made a remark to a colleague that, for facility standing on the largest freshwater lake system on the planet, it had rather a lot of saltwater tropical fish on display. Which is a little unfair; the Chicago Aquarium has a global focus on aquatic life. He smiled and said, “It’s the bright colours; they bring in the visitors, and that brings in the money.”

It’s the same in aviation museums and, to some degree, ...

In February 1979, Wing Commander (Natty) Nadkarni of the Indian Air Force and three colleagues were assigned to conversion training on SEPECAT Jaguars in Britain, fighter aircraft newly-acquired for squadrons of the Indian Air Force. Nadkarni was part of the first ferry flight of these aircraft home to India. The Indian Air Force still uses this fighter type today.

More used to the heat extremes of India, the four Indian Air Force pilots went through a number of preparations on ...

I wonder why people are so reluctant to use file names?

I run into this quite frequently in my role as file librarian. Someone will ask for some change or other and tell me to do it to "their file" or some such vague description. Or they will tell me the FID number, which is not very useful; check our search pages and you'll see there is no way to search on FID. Or they'll give me the URL of a search result they did; again not useful since that search result only works for ...