Australia’s first electric-powered light sport aircraft takes flight, pointing to an electric future In January this year, an aviation milestone was achieved, as the first Australian-registered electric-powered light-sport aircraft took flight. Lifting off from Jandakot Airport in Western Australia, the Alpha Electro, produced by Slovenia’s Pipistrel, can remain airborne for an hour with an extra

Stand by for Trans-Tasman fireworks later this year as Air New Zealand and Virgin Australia end their seven-year alliance. In reality the break-up isn’t much of a surprise but it will likely spark a new wave of intense competition on routes between the two countries. In an interview earlier this year Air New Zealand chief

A US startup has chosen New Zealand’s Canterbury Plains to flight test its self-flying electric air taxi Somewhere on the Canterbury Plains against a backdrop of the snow-tipped Southern Alps, local farmers got their first glimpses of the future of air taxi travel. Periodically, a strange-looking whisper-quiet vehicle would fly from a private airfield over

Flying the Cessna Grand Caravan EX Performance can mean many things to many aircraft. Fast, slow, short-field, heavy-lifter. Often an aircraft’s role can be ascertained merely by looking at it. In the most obvious case, a flying boat, more subtly, a freighter. Yet, even when the design suggests the suitability of an aeroplane to a