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Cowra offers 21 lots as part of new aviation development at airport

Adrian P says: These types of infrastructure developments are much more useful in developing rural Australia and the nation in general than adding another lane to a congested capital city road.

Cobham gets 10-year, A$1. 2 billion contract extension for QantasLink 717 flying

Kevin says: The word on the street is that Qantas have acquired another 5 717s from Volotea. The 717s in Perth have been an ideal replacement to the 737s which were running to a lot of the northern mining towns and now the 150-seat market to those towns has been reduced with the mining downturn to make the 717 ideal to match the reduced capacity requirement.

American touches down in Auckland

John C says: It’s the Dreamliner factor. If Qantas had been quicker in acquiring the 787-9, they could have been in the game. Since they weren’t even in the game with the lack of 777 and delayed 747 replacement, AA, Delta and United have a three year head start.

COMAC ARJ21-700 enters commercial service

Adam says: They certainty do love to copy things.

Mac Carter says: Rear mounted engines, not only look more sleek, for practical purposes, when operating from isolated runways, they are high and away from potential damage from ingesting foreign objects, gravel and loose stones spring to mind.

I am old enough to have memories of travelling in the DC-9.

Great aircraft, made North Queensland accessible to the rest of Australia, and proved to be a lifeline during extended wet seasons.

Labor reaffirms commitment to Badgerys Creek no-fly zone

Ben says: “… the flightpaths will be spread out”. Sounds nice on paper however is completely impractical for ATC to implement. You need the traffic to follow a defined and known path (to ATC and pilots alike) to provide effective and safe control over the air traffic. This utopia of random noise sharing paths is only possible in the heads of pollies and their NIMBY constituents.

Let’s not forget that the Badgerys traffic will have to be weaved into the already complex Sydney airspace and traffic that is utilising Sydney International, Bankstown, Camden, RAAF Richmond as well as other smaller aerodromes inside of 45nm and a couple of big ones outside 45nm (like The Oaks, Wollongong, RAN Nowra, Wilton, Holsworthy Army Barracks, Katoomba, Somersby, Warnervale, RAAF Williamtown). Also there are the restricted areas around Richmond, Holsworthy, Lucas Heights, Williamtown, Nowra and other locations to consider into this complicated mix!

Badgerys traffic will have to be weaved into the already complex Sydney airspace.