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Locked On #390 | The best of aviation photography

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A member of the Australian Amphibious Force helocasting from a CH-47 Chinook off the coast of northern Queensland in June. Helocasting involves jumping from a helicopter into the sea and is used as a way of infiltrating enemy territory via stealth.

 

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Qantas has restarted A380 flights from Melbourne for the first time post-COVID. Australian Aviation’s Victor Pody was in the Victorian capital to capture the moment the Super Jumbo, VH-OQL, landed at 7:14am on 17 June. It’s now regularly flying between Melbourne and LAX as QF93 and 94. Qantas grounded its entire fleet of 12 A380s during the pandemic, with most sent to the Victorville desert ‘boneyard’. The business has been slowly returning them to commercial flying, with two permanently decommissioned.

 

This photo shows QantasLink’s first A220 on the assembly line at the Airbus factory in Mirabel, Canada. The Flying Kangaroo has ordered 29 A220s to replace its ageing 717 fleet, with this particular aircraft due to arrive on Australian shores this year. Interesting fact: the new A220 actually has twice the range of the old 717s – at more than 6,000 kilometres – meaning it can fly between any two major cities in Australia. Nonetheless, the Flying Kangaroo mostly plans to dispatch it between smaller capitals such as Canberra and Hobart and the major hubs of Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.

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