Qantas Takes Delivery of Its First Boeing 787-338ER The delivery of a new aircraft type is always an important event for an airline. For Qantas, the arrival of the first of the Boeing 767-338ER fleet heralds the elevation of long-range twin engine jet airliners to levels of efficiency and comfort unimaginable even ten years ago.

Tupolev’s Tu-4, the Unwanted Legacy of the Matterhorn Plan In the short history of powered aircraft, probably no other aeroplane has made a greater contribution to the advancement of aviation technology than the American Boeing B-29 Superfortress. It represented bold new steps forward in terms of structure, propulsion, materials, weapon systems, computers and even flight

Year of the Mig Farnborough 1988, the 40th anniversary of one of the world s greatest air shows, will be long remembered as the occasion at which the Soviet Union lifted the veil of decades of secrecy on its front line military aircraft. If somebody had told you, even six months earlier, that two MiG-29

Qantas Listed as the Preferred Option in Air New Zealand Share Sale The New Zealand Government surprised much of the aviation industry during late September when it officially selected Qantas as the favoured bidder for a 25% shareholding in Air New Zealand. Prior to this, many observers, including the management of ANZ itself, had considered