The National Aviation Press Club held its seventh annual Aviation Journalist of the Year awards presentation dinner at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney on November 24. Long-time editor of Aviation Business maga-zine, Doug Nancarrow, has won the big prize for aviation reporting in 2006, the Airservices Australia National Aviation Press Club Journalist of the Year

The Red Bull Air Race World Series Landed in Perth for the First Time in November for the Final and Champion-ship-deciding Round for 2006. Pilots Competing in the Red Bull Air Race Are Required to Fly Through a Series of Inflat-able ‘air Gates’ in a Predetermined Sequence in the Fastest Possible Time at a Height

Singapore Airlines’s push for premium passengers They say that seeing is believing – and that famous saying was reinforced when Australian Aviation was given an exclusive preview of Singapore Airlines’s new luxurious interior. In our December issue, Australian Aviation previewed Singapore Airlines’s ambitious plans for a radical $477 million makeover of its entire cabin product,

The EADS board has given the green light to Airbus for the industrial launch of the A350XWB long range twin jet, with service entry planned for 2013. The decision followed a drawn out internal debate about the aircraft’s viability against Boeing’s hot-selling 777 and 787, the latter of which will have a five year head