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Calls For R44 Fuel Tanks Changes The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has advised owners of Robinson R44 helicopters to change their machines’ rigid aluminium fuel tanks for flexible bladder tanks following the release of a preliminary report into the crash of an R44 at Nowra on February 4. This content is available exclusively to

Qantas Group News in This Issue We Report the Delivery of a 737-800 to Qantas and a Fokker 100 to Network Aviation and the Departures of Two Qantas 737-400s and a 767-300. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this article, please login.

Cessna’s Citation Sovereign demonstrator, N192CN, on the ground at Canberra Airport during its visit to Australia in February following the Singapore Airshow. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this article, please login. Username or Email Password Forgot password? Keep me signed in

Boeing to take on A350 with new 777X models The verdict is in from the father of the 777-300ER — its replacement, the 777-9X is “a winner”. That’s the verdict from Emirates President Tim Clark at the handover of the airline’s 100th 777 A6-EGO and Boeing’s 1,000th to be delivered to Emirates late in March.

Useful construct or distracting label? Even though many professional pilots cannot define the term situational awareness, most can claim that they can ‘recognise it when they see it’, to misquote Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’s famous quip about pornography — or that they will recognise when it was lost, as in an accident report. However. some

Poseidon heralds new CONOPS for maritime patrol The United States Navy gave the new Boeing P-8A Poseidon its first operational outing recently at Exercise Bold Alligator, an operational fleet exercise off the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina. The platform will replace the stalwart though ageing P-3 Orion fleet on maritime patrol work. This content