The RAAF’s new fleet of C-17 transports is rapidly gaining a new level of maturity after commencing regular runs to the Middle East earlier this year in support of Australian and coalitions forces based there. The missions have in many areas replaced previously chartered Ilyushin Il-76 and Antonov An-124s or the occasional front or backload

Virgin Blue CEO Brett Godfrey ‘BG’ is about to leave the building. Sometime in 2010, BG, as Brett Godfrey is dubbed by Virgin Blue staff, will leave his relatively modest office in the airline’s ‘Virgin Village’ corporate HQ in Brisbane for the last time as he steps down from leading Australia’s second largest airline group

The program to equip the RAAF’s F/A-18A/B Hornets with Lockheed Martin’s AGM-158 JASSM stand off missile is regaining momentum following a series of successful test flights of lot 7 production standard missiles in the US recently. Selected to equip the Hornets under Project Air 5418 in 2006 ahead of Boeing’s SLAM-ER and the European Taurus

The RAAF took ‘initial delivery’ of two Boeing Wedgetail AEW&C aircraft at a ceremony at RAAF Williamtown on November 26. The ceremony was attended by Chief of Air Force AIRMSHL Mark Binskin; the DMO’s AEW&C program manager, AVM Chris Deeble; Boeing’s AEW&C program vice president Maureen Doherty; AIRCDRE Jim Brown, the Commander of the RAAF’s