33SQN introduces the KC-30 Almost eight years after choosing the A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) to meet AIR 5402’s operational requirement, the RAAF is still yet to see all five KC-30s gracing 33 SQN’s hardstand at Amberley. But despite protracted and ongoing development, early indications are that once the teething problems have been sorted, Air
Eye on the future at Adelaide Airport Adelaide Airport is looking to the future with moves to spend another $400 million on improvements and upgrades as it completes its latest infrastructure project — a $100 million multi-storey car park and adjoining pedestrian plaza at the front of its passenger terminal. Meanwhile, it’s enjoying a surge
Are kids falling out of love with careers in aviation? The Australian Aviation website ran a special article recently that took a look the present-day appeal – or lack of it – of aviation in the minds of today’s schoolchildren. And the answer seems to be that the thrill of flying has almost disappeared from
Boeing boss bullish on program execution Upbeat – that’s the assessment of the company’s future programs from Boeing chairman, president and chief executive officer Jim McNerney, who says the upside of hard lessons of the past few years are about to be reaped. At a round table of six aviation editors at this year’s Farnborough
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A skills shortage “Nine cadets! They’ve got to be joking!” I was chatting with a senior industry figure recently about the issue of the aviation skills crisis and the industry’s inability to attract young people. The subject of our chat was Virgin Australia’s recently announced cadet pilot scheme and as detailed in our report elsewhere