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Gold Coast Airport gears up for the Commonwealth Games and beyond Take your pick: straight in or downwind for left base, the view on approach to Runway 14 at the Gold Coast is arguably one of Australia’s best. First, the heady combination of creeks and estuaries, rolling surf, kilometres of beach, ubiquitous canals and canal

The US’s Future Vertical Lift program could result in Australia’s next battlefield helicopter The US military’s effort to introduce the next generation of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft has quite literally taken off, with the Bell V-280 Valor tiltrotor completing its maiden Flight. The air vehicle concept demonstrator aircraft is being developed under the

A refurbished ex-US Army Black Hawk is fast proving to be a game changer in the world of aerial firefighting. Thanks to a unique partnership struck between Scone-based Pay’s Helicopters and Idahobased Timberline Helicopters, an ex US Army UH-60A Black Hawk, registered N5630J and equipped with a collapsible 3,400 litre multi-shot BBX7590 Bambi bucket, has

Eye in the Sky GA black box born out of heartbreak It comes as no surprise to Louisa ‘Choppy’ Patterson that preliminary investigations have been unable to fathom why a De Havilland Beaver floatplane was off course and crashed into the Hawkesbury River north of Sydney, killing all six on board on New Year’s Eve.

News briefs from across aviation AIRLINES Qatar Airways will lift capacity on its Doha-Perth service by 44 per cent from May 1 when it upgauges its existing daily flight to the Airbus A380 from the Boeing 777-300ER currently serving the route. – This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member

A new hope or a false dawn for the Airbus A380? Airbus bills its A380 as “the passengers’ favourite”. That’s the message on Airbus’s “I fly A380” marketing website devoted to the world’s largest passenger aircraft, which among other things features a wall of social media posts from scores of happy travellers. This content is