…Regiment in Darwin, were in the nation’s capital to support Royal Military College Duntroon training. Pictured are four Kiowas arriving at Fairbairn Defence Establishment, Canberra Airport, to refuel prior to departing for the Army Aviation Training Centre at Oakey on November 21. (Paul Sadler) 173 Aviation Squadron Re-roles, Takes on Kiowas the Army’s 173 Surveillance

Qantas Group News This Issue We Report the Delivery of an A330-200 to Qantas and the Withdrawal of a 747-400 and a 767-300. Qantas Also Transferred an A330-200 to Jetstar, While Jetconnect Withdrew Its Last 737-300 From Service. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the

A comment by the ADF’s Middle East Area of Operations (MEAO) Air Component Commander, GPCAPT Gary Martin neatly summed the RAAF’s airlift balance issue for this writer in one line when we talked by phone recently. “Not long ago we were a C-130 sized air force,” he said while discussing the RAAF’s introduction of the

What threat toxic fumes in aircraft cabins? “We sweat in the cockpit, though much of the time we fly with the side windows open. The airplanes smell of hot oil and simmering aluminum, disinfectant, leather … the stewardesses, short-tempered and reeking of vomit, come forward as often as they can for what is a breath