At Rotortech, LifeFlight, one of Australia’s biggest aeromedical organisations and the largest operator of the Leonardo AW139, announced it was taking delivery of its 17th, bringing the total number of AW139s in Oceania to 80.
Rotortech 2026 wrapped up on the Gold Coast after a record-breaking week that reinforced the event’s standing as the Asia-Pacific’s leading gathering for the vertical flight and advanced air mobility sectors.
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.
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