Staff reporter

The Kiwi ingenuity behind the movie industry’s best aerial cinematography When an innovative New Zealand company develops a cutting-edge aerial camera system a stone’s throw from an airport where a helicopter operator services A-list movie productions is a fortuitous match. Add to that jaw-dropping scenery of mountains, lakes, valleys, waterfalls, forests and fiords, of epic

Design, certification and manufacturing create high-tech airline cabin challenges Sit down in your airliner seat, buckle up, and contemplate the seat back in front of you. Over decades, and at a cost second only to the price of the airframe itself, that seat has been engineered to ever-stricter standards to save your life several times

Low flying is dangerous The sound of the aircraft engine, low and loud, brought the people out of the house to see the aircraft banking steeply above them. As they watched the upper wing of the banked aircraft stalled and the machine rolled into a spin before it impacted nose down a few hundred metres

Qantas fires the starting gun on its new pilot training academy location It’s probably no surprise Qantas has been deluged by applications from budding young pilots for its planned new flying academy, given its reputation for having highly professional cockpit crew. Now, the hard work begins as it moves to decide where the facility should

The RAAF in bomber command Street names at the Australian Defence Force Academy honour notable wartime actions. While every one of those actions was a matter of life or death for the men involved, when measured against the broader sweep of history some scarcely merit the description “battle”. It might seem curious, therefore, that three

Network brings A320s to Qantas A new flying kangaroo has taken to the skies with Qantas-branded Airbus A320s commenced services in Western Australia in April. Sourced from fellow Qantas Group subsidiary Jetstar, the aircraft are flown by Network Aviation under the QantasLink brand. The two aircraft, VH-VQ_ and VQ_ retain their Jetstar 180-seat all-eeconomy cabin