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June 13, 2009 0 commentQantas Group News Qantas Was Planning to Take Delivery of Its Fourth A380-842, Vh-oqd Fergus Mcmaster, in Late May With the Aircraft to Enter Service in Early June. 767-338er Vh-ogp Has Been Painted in the New Qantas Livery by Tae at Raaf Richmond. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a
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June 12, 2009 0 commentAn Australian thoroughbred As the various fleets of GA trainers continue to age, more questions than answers seem to arise about the future direction of this category of aircraft. Fortunately, one aircraft is offering a viable solution and best of all, it’s home grown! I walked along a flightline of GA trainers the other day
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June 11, 2009 0 commentDassault takes bizjet performance to new heights Dassault’s Falcon range of business jets are often be considered among the Rolls-Royce of business jets, and its flagship Falcon 7X is no exception. The first new design Falcon trijet since the Model 50 of the 1970s – which itself spawned the Falcon 900 series and the twinjet
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June 10, 2009 0 commentAustralia’s New Air Combat Capability Major defence acquisition programs are almost invariably accompanied by controversy. Often such controversy proves to be misplaced, as the exceptional in-service performance of the once-disparaged F-111 strike aircraft and Collins class submarine has shown. Yet even allowing for that history, much of the debate surrounding the Australian Defence Force’s project
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June 9, 2009 0 commentSouth Australia’s regional airline Expanding South Australian operator Air South calls itself “Adelaide’s largest air charter company’’. The boast is based on the local ownership of the aviation group rather than the breadth of its operations or the capacity of its aircraft. Rivals such as Alliance, with five Fokker 50s based at Adelaide Airport, is
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June 8, 2009 0 commentAerial ag begining to pick up in some regions While other sectors of the Australian aviation industry are grappling with the fallout of the global recession, those in the aerial ag sector are is looking forward to a return to better times. Summer rains across Queensland and northern New South Wales have raised hopes that
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