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The hunt for Australia’s next naval helicopter It is the last big piece of the ADF’s ambitious Air 9000 helicopter rationalisation program to fall into place – what to do with naval helicopters now the Seasprite has been cancelled and the current Seahawk fleet is overstretched. There are two likely contenders to replace the Seahawk
The public version of the Labor government’s Air Combat Capability Review (ACCR) was due to be released during the life of this issue after being presented to Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon on April 30 for consideration by government’s National Security Committee. The ACCR’s first stage was an assessment of the RAAF’s short-term combat needs out
CASA has released its report on the Assessment of Trends and Risk Factors in Passenger Air Transport, which aims to identify how ongoing trends in aviation could pose a risk to safety in Australia. The assessment is the first of what will hopefully become an ongoing series of investigations into how longer term trends in
Building and supporting the world’s largest airliner Without doubt 2007 was the high point in the development of the Airbus A380 thus far, with its successful introduction into airline service last October with Singapore Airlines. With that important, symbolic event passed, and with still only four A380s in service at the time of writing, eight
In late May, the benchmark Singapore Tapis price of jet fuel soared up to US$166 (A$174) per barrel, forcing some airlines to cut aircraft and routes. On May 28, Qantas announced that it would ground two Boeing 767s, retire a 737 and will withdraw its four 747-300s by December. The carrier will also withdraw from
Commercial Sukhoi Superjet Makes Debut Flight the Sukhoi Superjet 100 Made Its First Flight on May 19 From Sukhoi’s Facility at Komsomolsk-on-amur. The Flight Was Captained by Sukhoi Civil Aircraft’s Chief Pilot Alexander Yablontsev and Test Pilot Leonid Chikunov. The Flight Lasted One Hour and Five Minutes and Reached an Altitude of 3900ft, During Which
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