Sydney Flight College has awarded its first Women Pilot Scholarship, in partnership with the Australian Women Pilots’ Association (AWPA), to encourage female participation in aviation.
Aircraft on display will include warbirds such as the Spitfire, Mustang and Boomerang as well as an aerobatics display from Paul Bennet in his Wolf Pitts Pro.
Dan Webster, the man bringing the Grumman G-111T back, has said he "won't' stop" just at the first remodelled variant, and is ready to future-proof the next-generation flying boat.
The safety bureau’s preliminary findings into the incident, which killed a 60-year-old man in Gippsland, east of Melbourne, has found no pre-impact defects with the aircraft’s flight controls or structure.
Linda Beilharz was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2010 when she became the first Australian woman to ski to both the South and North poles.
The airline's final RJ100, VH-NJE, performed its last passenger flight in Adelaide on Friday evening before being met with a water cannon salute, to mark the end of an era for the regional fly-in-fly-out and charter operator.
