Big deck aviation returns to the Royal Australian Navy Navy’s largest and newest warship returned alongside Fleet Base East, Garden Island, in Sydney Harbour on April 23 after a 6,000km (3,240nm), seven-week voyage to conduct the first of three first of class flight trials (FoCFT) to test and set the operating limits of the ship’s

Qantas seeking quicker turnaround times and more efficient fleet use Aircraft on the ground don’t make any money is one of the accepted truths in aviation. As such, airlines around the world have tried to keep their operating fleets flying for as long as possible each day to improve utilisation and lower unit costs. This

Are drones the new IEDs? For the past 14 years the best trained, best equipped, most technologically-advanced armies the world has ever known, including those from America, Australia, the UK and Canada, have been fighting in the so-called ‘War on Terror’ in Iraq and Afghanistan. As of February 2015, those armies had suffered approximately 8,000

No luxury please, we’re Chinese With a population of some 1. 4 billion and a rapidly expanding middle class you would think China’s airlines would have little to gripe about as they survey the enormous potential pool of travellers available to fill the ever-increasing number of seats they are throwing into the country’s crowded skies.