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The US Marine Corps’ new RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned system has commenced its initial operational test and evaluation period at Twentynine Palms in California. Built by Insitu as the Integrator, a development of the smaller ScanEagle unmanned system that was operated by the Australian Army in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Blackjack was selected to fulfil the

The Australian Airline Pilot Academy (AAPA) has announced that it has received approval from the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) as an approved flight training organisation to conduct integrated airline transport pilot licence (ATPL) training for UAE-based airlines. The AAPA is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Regional Express (Rex) and is located

The famous RAF 617 Squadron, better known as the ‘Dambusters’ will soon be disbanded after the unit completed its latest deployment to Afghanistan. 617 became famous after the unit, equipped with modified Lancaster bombers successfully breached a number of dams in the Ruhr Valley in 1943, thus severely impacting Germany’s war effort. This content is

Rex subsidiary Air Link has been granted interim approval to service Cobar and Mudgee from Sydney until March 21, but has decided not to operate those services because of what it says has been a “much-delayed approval” process. Rex says it is still assessing whether the route is viable, and claimed Transport NSW’s drawn out

Dubai International Airport in the UAE has recorded an annual passenger traffic figure of 66,431,533 in 2013, 15.2 per cent more than the 57,684,550 it logged in 2012. The record comes on the back of a 7.5 per cent increase in airliner movement numbers to 369,953, and the opening of the new Concourse A terminal

An Airbus A350 test aircraft has completed a week-long cold weather trial at Iqaluit in Canada. The trial saw MSN3 subjected to temperatures of -28°C. After a cold soak period, the aircraft’s APU and engines were started, its avionics and other systems behaviour verified, and low speed taxi and RTO tests conducted. This content is