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The Autumn 21 edition of the Air Force Association’s Wings magazine can now be accessed online via the new Wings website: www.wingsmagazine.org.

In this edition Wings acknowledges the Air Force centenary and the contribution air power has made to our young nation, both commercially and militarily. It begins a RAAF history series and continues the Qantas and Skunk Works series. The Autumn edition also introduces a short series on an Aussie larrikin who set the Australian Land Speed record (with some RAAF assistance) and who has aspirations to break the sound barrier on land.

Along with the regular digests and information, this edition features RAAF Base Amberley and its Aviation Heritage Centre. Our Management and Leadership article relates an experience dealing with honour and integrity and is well worth reading for those who aspire to leadership roles. The Air League report can be found on page 70.

The Air Force Association hopes all its readers continue to enjoy the magazine, and would like to encourage readers to promote subscription to the magazine to the broader aviation community either as a gift or for direct access to a quality aerospace magazine.

An e-version of the Summer edition of the Air Force Association’s Wings magazine can be accessed on line via the new Wings website: www.wingsmagazine.org.

Apart from the regular digests and information, this edition includes:

• A series on the legendary Lockheed Skunk Works, with the first instalment covering the fascinating development of the SR-71, Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft that featured in the Spring edition;

• Acknowledgement of the Qantas centenary is continued with the first of a four-part series on the evolution of this iconic world airline; and

• In a first for Wings, direct access to short video illustrations of feature articles is enabled via QR codes, as dramatically demonstrated in the graphic videos of test ejections in the “Riding Shotgun” Martin Baker story.

There is also a report on Australian Air League activities on page 71

Note that Wings has a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pg/WingsMagazineRAAFAPublications