Year: 2018

They throw in a free load of fuel when you buy an Airbus A380. But when the largest aircraft in commercial aviation costs north of $300 million each, that’s probably the least that manufacturer Airbus could do.

Long before the first Qantas A380 touched down on Australian soil, its crews were well versed in the ways of the massive Airbus flagship.

This edition of the Australian Aviation podcast talks with Liam Morey from Teen Around Oz, who at 16 years of age is attempting to break the Guinness World record to be the youngest person to circumnavigate Australia unassisted and on his own in a plane.

To mark the 10th anniversary of the delivery of the first Qantas A380 in September 2008, today’s Throwback Thursday (TBT) features are republished from our November 2008 issue’s indepth coverage of the arrival of the first of the Flying Kangaroo’s super jumbos. Years of marketing hype from Airbus, the double beds on Singapore Airlines’s A380 and

A Virgin Australia Boeing 737-800 came within five metres of leaving the runway after landing at Christchurch Airport because pilots did not configure the aircraft properly for a wet arrival, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) says.

This Australian Aviation podcast talks with Shannon Samarasekera and Stephen Limkin from Outback Aviators about the Outback Air Race.