Year: 2018

Eye in the Sky GA black box born out of heartbreak It comes as no surprise to Louisa ‘Choppy’ Patterson that preliminary investigations have been unable to fathom why a De Havilland Beaver floatplane was off course and crashed into the Hawkesbury River north of Sydney, killing all six on board on New Year’s Eve.

News briefs from across aviation AIRLINES Qatar Airways will lift capacity on its Doha-Perth service by 44 per cent from May 1 when it upgauges its existing daily flight to the Airbus A380 from the Boeing 777-300ER currently serving the route. – This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member

the first Airbus A350-900ULR (Ultra Long Range) aircraft emerged from the manufacturer’s final assembly line at Toulouse yesterday

A new hope or a false dawn for the Airbus A380? Airbus bills its A380 as “the passengers’ favourite”. That’s the message on Airbus’s “I fly A380” marketing website devoted to the world’s largest passenger aircraft, which among other things features a wall of social media posts from scores of happy travellers. This content is

In a potential thaw in relations between the Canadian government and Boeing, Canada’s Public Works and Government Services agency has approved the US aerospace giant as a potential bidder for its long-overdue CF-18 Hornet replacement fighter program. The program has been delayed several times after the Canadian government put on hold its commitment to the

Boeing’s 787-10 and the 787 at 10 As Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner begins its second decade, the promises that this first composite airliner will fly farther, cheaper and with less fuel burn than previous generations have been clearly demonstrated. 630 aircraft are currently in service with 45 airlines on every continent, with Boeing citing 218 million