Less distance, less time = more passengers The cessation of the world’s longest nonstop route – Singapore Airlines’ Singapore-New York/Newark service – will see the end of the still young long-legged Airbus A340-500 operating on what were pioneering long-distance routes. SIN/EWR was the epitome of distance versus seasonal winds. Operating along The Great Circle, the

NSW Health tenders aeromedical services The long-awaited tender by NSW Health for aeromedical services is poised to be released, the first step in an anticipated shake-up of how rotary-wing services are structured and delivered. The Helicopter Retrieval Network, which is aimed at increasing standardisation, will feature Northern NSW and Southern NSW ‘super regions’. In information

Flight instructing with UNSW The line of training aircraft sits at the ready on the Bankstown Airport tarmac. Beneath their clear expansive canopies, students and instructors can be seen running through checklists, pointing and nodding in affirmation. It is a scene repeated year after year all around the world as the lessons of flight are

ADF UAVs in Afghanistan Australian media coverage of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), perhaps more provocatively described as ‘drones’, tends to focus on armed US Predators and Reapers ‘neutralising’ Taliban insurgent leadership figures. But that focus ignores and marginalises the work of the Australian UAVs and their operators in providing intelligence and saving lives on the