The Learjet 60XR Predictive texting can be annoying, but it can also be amusingly perceptive. Try to text ‘Lear’ and you’ll get ‘Leap’. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this article, please login. Username or Email Password Forgot password? Keep me signed

“Never, in recent history has an industry been so maligned and the public so misled by so much falsehood and distortion that it almost beggars belief. ” So say the authors of a new book on aviation’s effect on the environment, which reveals disturbing omissions and errors in many highly respected environmental reports. Plane Simple

Jetstar’s Vietnamese bridgehead into Asia Jetstar’s launch of its Jetstar Pacific Vietnamese partner has accelerated the Australian low cost carrier’s efforts to firmly entrench itself in Asia in what is emerging as the great race against Tiger and AirAsia for low fares leadership in the world’s most populous region. The current and potential size of

Northrop Grumman’s RQ-4N Global Hawk has been selected by the US Navy to fulfil its US$3bn (A$3. 2bn) Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) requirement. The RQ-4N, a development of the RQ-4B Block 20 currently under development for the USAF, beat out the Lockheed Martin/General Atomics Predator Mariner, and an optionally manned Gulfstream G550 offered by