News Desk

July 2, 2008 0 comment

Commercial Sukhoi Superjet Makes Debut Flight the Sukhoi Superjet 100 Made Its First Flight on May 19 From Sukhoi’s Facility at Komsomolsk-on-amur. The Flight Was Captained by Sukhoi Civil Aircraft’s Chief Pilot Alexander Yablontsev and Test Pilot Leonid Chikunov. The Flight Lasted One Hour and Five Minutes and Reached an Altitude of 3900ft, During Which

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Issue 250: ARH Tiger

June 23, 2008 0 comment

Army Tiger program overcomes hurdles Once hailed as a “model program” and the “lead project in the overall reform of acquisition processes”, the Tiger Armed Reconnaissance helicopter program for the Australian Army, has been becalmed in recent years by a mix of certification, contractual and serviceability issues which have now left it running about two

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Deregulation – success or failure?

June 21, 2008 0 comment

The recent demise of Oasis Hong Kong, ATA, Skybus, Aloha Airlines, EOS Airlines and Frontier Airlines has led to the usual flurry of articles from the lay media asking the almost annual question, ‘was deregulation in the US a success?’. And without fail the analysis is done using the “fares have gone down and passengers

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Register Update

June 20, 2008 0 comment

New Allocations Registration/type/serialnumber/date/owneroroperator/previousregistrations Aqf Cessna 152 15281355 8/4/08ian Aviation, Po Box 147 Archerfield 4108 N49843 Bjj Iai Heron‑1 Uav 169 7/4/08 Israel Aerospace Industries, Ben‑gurion Airport Israel Brk Kavanagh E‑300 Kb377 7/4/08 Reaton Court, Po Box 2757 Burleigh Qld 4220 Bsf Cessna 152 15281408 8/4/08ian Aviation, Po Box 147 Archerfield 4108 N49945 Byq Cessna 152

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Airports, Councils & Governments – Qld Style

June 19, 2008 0 comment

The New Whitsunday Regional Council is Seeing Red Over the Queensland Government’s Whitsunday International Airport Proposal. Long Stalled Laguna Quays Private International Airport Still Looks Favoured to Win Over Proserpine, a Move That Could See the Latter Closed. The Three Preferred Tenderers: Brisbane Airports Corporation (Bacl) Teamed With Laguna Quay’s Developer David Marriner; Queensland Airports;

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Green and White Papers

June 18, 2008 0 comment

Very welcome but… another government review of aviation. Hopefully this one will bear more fruit than the several set up by the previous government. At least this one has been given decent status and policy structure and will lead to a white paper that will hopefully outline a sane pathway to better aviation policy. This

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