Delivering VH-VZT across the Pacific Have you ever breathed in that new car smell? That’s what greeted the crew of Qantas Flight 6024 on the ramp at Boeing Field on a somewhat larger scale as the sun began to peak above the mountains to the east. The brand new 737NG was about to depart Seattle
GippsAero’s utilitarian elegance Driving towards the Latrobe Regional Airport, you could easily be forgiven for missing the turn and driving past the home of GippsAero, as this operation is more about substance than show, a trait that translates into its ever-growing line of functional aeroplanes that are spreading across the globe. Gippsland Aeronautics, as GippsAero
Getting the show right “Roulettes; 15 seconds, smoke on – go!”, let the show begin! With the throttle set to 40psi torque, and from an altitude of 1500 feet I begin the dive to pass from behind and over the crowd at 500 feet and at least 260 knots. This content is available exclusively to
Qantas’s 747 reconfiguration program Parked Inside a Cavernous Hangar at Qantas’s Avalon Heavy Maintenance Facility Sits Boeing 747-438er Vh-oeh, Midway Through Its Internal Refit. It’s a Tight Fit – the Aircraft’s Winglets Clear the Hangar Walls by Centimetres – and All Around the Boeing Are Palletised Rows of New Seats, Skybeds and in-flight Entertainment Equipment
The coming inflight entertainment revolution It’s increasingly likely the battle for bums on seats on Australian airlines will be won not by what the airlines offer on the back of those seats but by what enabling technologies they provide for either supplied iPads or passengers’ own devices. Driven by the late delivery of the 787,
Changes in the air for Army Aviation The Australian Army’s rotary wing fleet is in transition, from the entry into service of the all-new Tiger Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter capability, to replacing the stalwart Black Hawk battlefield helicopter with the delayed MRH 90, to bolstering the heavylift CH-47D Chinook fleet with two futher machines. The CH-47D