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Preparing the next generation of Australian pilots and maintainers to operate the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) will now be undertaken on home soil, with the final Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) training mission now completed at Luke Air Force base.

Time to look back 2020 and the new decade is here. With that in mind it is a good time to look back on a few things of interest that have happened in the last ten years. For many years there has been discussion about the impending pilot shortage. Well we seem to now have

A GA Instructor’s Viewpoint of LSA In our last article we were introduced to the category of Light Sport Aircraft (LSA) from the PPL’s perspective. This time we follow a week-by-week journal of one instructor’s view of converting from GA to LSA and the benefits and pitfalls that may be involved. Before we begin the conversion

Well-travelled Supermarine Spitfire becomes VH-XWE A good cross-section of types is included in the New Allocations this issue with undoubtedly the most interesting being Bishop Aviation’s Supermarine Spitfire VH-XWE. The provenance of this aircraft is a little unclear however going by the records of the most knowledgeable warbird historian in Australia, Geoff Goodall, the following

Investment and economic opportunities follow passenger growth China and India may grab the headlines when it comes to spectacular growth in the aviation sector but there’s another country in the region which isn’t far behind. Vietnam took some time to emerge from years of conflict and its restrictive socialist regime but if communism can have

The airline passenger experience in the next decade In ten years, it’s likely that we’ll look back on the passenger experience of 2020 in the same way that 2010 feels like something of a distant memory: a time where we flew without movies on widescreen smartphones, and when the iPad, so disruptive to the world