Tim Johnson

Integrating a Russian Mi-8 into Australian bushfire operations How do you use disparate, international aircraft volunteered from overseas into a unique operating environment like fighting bushfires in Australia? Offers of help poured in, but one curiosity was Mad Max: a Russian Mil Mi-8 helicopter from Papua New Guinean operator Hevilift, which won a contract to

The end of the jet age is in sight. Within the lifetime of many of the readers of the World of Aviation, passengers will be flying commercially on aircraft powered in ways that are not currently viable: with electric motors, batteries, fuel cells, and certainly other technologies yet to emerge. To start with, though, aviation

Readers who remember aviation in the late 1980s and early 1990s may recall Boeing’s three-market analysis for the 777: the A market for under seven to eight hours of flying, the B market for a bit more than that and the C market for what we’d now call ultra-longhaul at a reduced payload. These eventually

Emirates’ Flight Training Academy aims to fill the pilot gap Pilots are, as we all know, a hot commodity. The global airline industry will need around 804,000 new civil aviation pilots in commercial and business aviation and for civil helicopters over the next 20 years. The forecast from Boeing’s 2019 Pilot and Technician Outlook is

Australia’s Airpower Teaming System UAV program is on target To the uninitiated, the concept of an unmanned aircraft leveraging artificial intelligence to execute missions assigned by airborne controllers might sound like science fiction. But as technology for the next-generation of fighter jets continues to become science fact, the question of how to provide reliable, secure

How learning to fly taught me to chill out FU, stated the weather chart in bold, dashing hopes of going flying. No, not the abbreviation that might initially spring to mind, but the official aviation weather designation for smoke — from the French, fumée. This smoke was from the Australian bushfires, travelling some 2,000km across