Smart appearance and good attiude mean business It was while I was closing off an aircraft retract endorsement that a young fellow came up to the aircraft as I waited for my student to dip the tanks. The young guy would have been about 19 years old and wore the pilot shirt of a flying

Gone but not forgotten, the original speed machine It was supposed to be the first example of the aircraft of the future, jetting across the world at twice the speed of sound, straddling 41 kilometres every minute, cutting the effective size of the world in half. Fifty years ago, on March 2 1969, the first

Quest Kodiak: born and bred for the backcountry In aircraft design, beauty is more than skin deep. While some airframes are particularly aesthetically pleasing, many hide their strengths beneath aerodynamic fairings or engine cowlings and only on closer inspection is their true purpose revealed. The Quest Kodiak is a classic case study of this fact.

Back to the future for the new CEO at burgeoning BNE There is a familiar face at the helm of Brisbane Airport Corporation (BAC). Gert-Jan de Graaff may be new to the role of CEO, but he is no stranger to Brisbane Airport, having held senior roles at the airport from 2007 to 2012. De