MOTOR Magazine Australia

THE ULTIMATE DOGFIGHT

OF COURSE it should never have come to pass. Airforce jet fighters simply do not match-race motor vehicles along landing strips.

Not until now anyway.

Credit or blame (take your pick)forthis unusual confrontation goes to our respected columnist Jim Sullivan who, when he is not indulging himself In Repco Trials or testing cars or doing anything else automotive, is a news reporter for the go-ahead Newcastle television station, NBN-3.

NBN enjoys a surprisingly close relationship with the nearby William-town RAAF base—due in no small measure to the progressive open-door approach to the media adopted by the Officer Commanding, Air Commodore

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