Virgin ground for Borghetti
As a former employee of another part of the Qantas Group, I only met John Borghetti once at an employee roadshow in 2007 talking about some of the future plans of the group. But from what I saw of him, I think he’ll make a great CEO at Virgin Blue,... [Continue reading]
Williams Foundation comments on F-35 problems
As part of the Fiscal 2011 US Defense Department Budget Requests, Defense Secretary Robert Gates on February 1 2010 proposed US$11 billion for the F-35 Joint Strike Figher (JSF) program and outlined a strategy to stabilise project cost and schedule. He... [Continue reading]
The Eagle has landed!
“It’s a good day, but we’ve still got some way to go,” AEW&C program head AVM Chris Deeble told me at the occasion of the ‘initial handover’ of the first two Wedgetail AEW&C aircraft to the RAAF this morning, but the relief in his... [Continue reading]
JSF – a win for strategic thinking
The Williams Foundation unequivocally endorses the government’s decision to place a firm order for 14 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters. This represents strategic thinking of the first order, for which the Rudd government, and indeed its coalition predecessors... [Continue reading]
JSF acquisition answers some questions, raises others
Remember November 25, it’s an historic day for Australian military aviation. It is not every day that the Australian government commits to buy a new fighter, but today it did just that in committing to buy 14 Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters... [Continue reading]
