Nz Spitfire Sold to China the September 14 Auction of Spitfire Mk. Xvie Te330 at Nelson in New Zealand Set an All Time World High for Spitfires With a Sale Figure of Nz$2. 8m (a$2. 3m). The Aircraft Was Sold to North China Shipping Holdings Chairman Yan-ming Gao, Who Plans to Donate It to the

It was interesting to see Lockheed Martin and JSF program office (JPO) officials go on the front foot recently following new attacks from the F-35’s critics. The latest series of criticisms started to get air in early September after a former USAF architect of the lightweight fighter concept which spawned the F-16 and YF-17 claimed

Qantas Group Fleet Update Qantas Took Delivery of Its First A380-842 Vh-oqa Nancy-bird Walton at Sydney on September 21 After the Aircraft Completed Its Ferry From Toulouse via Singapore as Flight Qf6008. After Training and Publicity Flights Across Australia and to New Zealand, Vh-oqa Was Due to Enter Service With Qantas on October 20 Operating

Transformation, growth and safety For Indonesia’s flag carrier, it’s been a tough decade since emerging out of the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Increasing competition, a major accident and terrorist bombings in Bali have all made it hard for the carrier to break out of what Garuda Indonesia CEO Emirsyah Satar calls the downward cycle. “Our