Flying Australia’s Antarctic Airlink A319 to the ice Eighty-one years ago a ski-equipped black Lockheed Vega took off from the sea ice on the Antarctic Peninsula on the first flight over the frozen continent. Its pilot, the then famous Australian adventurer Sir Hubert Wilkins, could never have imagined that one day a passenger jet would

Program Manager New Air Combat Capability – AVM John Harvey With Australia committing to an initial buy of 14 F-35A Joint Strike Fighters last November as a prelude to an eventual buy of up to 100 aircraft, the New Air Combat Capability (NACC) office under the leadership of AVM John Harvey is ramping up its

Delivering the flightpath of the future? “So it’s been almost two years work, and I think whilst circumstances change with aviation – it’s a fast moving industry – it’s an attempt to put the framework around the broad range of chapters that we have in headings of economy, safety and security, the community, consultation engaging,

The battle to replace the Royal Australian Navy’s fleet of 16 S-70B-2 Seahawks and the still vacant anti-surface capability left by the cancellation of the Seasprite is ramping up. The hot topic at late January’s Pacific 2010 maritime exposition in Sydney was whether federal cabinet would go with Defence’s reported recommendation and order the Sikorsky/Lockheed