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Chief pilot Finley Lewis was one of Australia’s original drone pioneers. But years on, he’s not stopping there. HE’S FAR too modest to put it like this, but Finley Lewis, now22, was something of a prodigy in Australia’s burgeoning RPAS industry. As a child, he’d build remote control airplanes at home before transferring that passion

The 2021 Wings, Wheels and Wine show in Mudgee welcomed a sell-out crowd of 3,000 people on the weekend of 17–18 April.  Australian Aviation’s Phil Tarrant was one of the many attendees at the town’s airport who witnessed the extraordinary stunts and the event’s 170 exhibits and 100 cars.  This content is available exclusively to

Eleven thousand kilometres from Google’s Californian HQ, the tech giant is quietly revolutionising the way we eat, drink and shop with drones in the Sunshine State. Adam Thorn hears the buzz from the key players at the forefront of aviation’s next big thing

Hannah Dowling explores the current state of the flag carrier’s superjumbo fleet, to deduce which two aircraft could see an early retirement in the desert. IN AUGUST this year, Qantas announced it will bring 10 of its 12 Airbus A380s back into service, five of which are set to return to the skies in 2022,

As Aviation Australia celebrates its two-decade anniversary, its senior figures discuss how the sector has successfully emerged from COVID – and why the future for new recruits is bright WHEN COVID first ravaged the aviation industry in the autumn of 2020, things looked bleak. Qantas made 8,000 of its 29,000 workers redundant, Virgin slipped into

David Prossor gives his practical tips for what stood down or out of work pilots can do as the industry slowly reopens AIRLINE AND GA pilots have both been doing it tough, but GA gets little media publicity. From a pilot’s point of view, we have to ask when it will all end? It pains