Marc Joel Atrero

Could Bell’s new tilt-rotor helicopter represent the high-speed rebirth of army aviation?

In this extract from his book, Damien Lay imagines the final moments of the Lady Southern Cross and its pilots, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Tommy Pethybridge, as they went down over the Gulf of Martaban in 1935.

What the 2026 National Defence Strategy means for Australian air power, guided weapons and missile defence.

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Aviation’s night of nights, the fifth annual Australian Aviation Awards, is here again The Australian Aviation Awards are back for their fifth year, returning to The Star on Thursday, 6 August for a star-studded night feting the best of the best in our aviation sector. Established in 2022 and held alongside the Australian Aviation Summit

Life begins at 40(0) It’s not every day you get to celebrate such a nice round number as 400 – but this is, in fact, the 400th issue of Australian Aviation. We can’t help but wonder whether its founder, Jim Thorn, back in 1977, could have anticipated it lasting so long or reaching so many