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The hull of the RAN’s second Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD02) has arrived in Melbourne from Navantia’s Ferrol shipyard in Spain. Like the LHD01 (NUSHIP Canberra) before it, the hull of LHD02 – which will be named HMAS Adelaide in RAN service – was transported from Spain on the heavy lift ship MV Blue Marlin. The hull

The Australian Airports Association (AAA) has called for a full review of the CASA regulations governing the operation of Australian aerodromes as part of its submission to the government’s review of aviation safety regulation. Specifically, the industry body says MOS Part 139 should be reviewed as a matter of priority to bring the standards up

A team of researchers from the Queensland University of Technology, Boeing Research & Technology – Australia, and Insitu Pacific have developed what they believe to be a world-first on-board system for an unmanned aircraft to detect another aircraft using vision while in flight. During flight trials north-west of Brisbane at Watts Bridge and using an

Boeing says it has delivered two 787-8 Boeing Business Jets (BBJs) in the past week. The deliveries, to undisclosed customers but believed to include Michael Dell from Dell Computers, are the second and third 787 BBJs out of 13 currently on order through to 2018. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login

Quickstep Holdings has announced it has delivered the first shipset of C‐130J wing flaps to Lockheed Martin. The company was awarded the tender to manufacture wing flaps for the C‐130J aircraft in March 2012 and signed a U.S. $75 million memorandum of agreement (MOA) in December 2013. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation

The winner of the prestigious Aviation Aeroskills scholarship at the 2013 Aerospace Education Awards has commenced study at Aviation Australia in Brisbane. Mitchell Eikenloff was one of two scholarship winners through the Aerospace Gateway Schools program, and will have the costs of an institutional Certificate IV in Aeroskills at Aviation Australia covered by the scholarship.