Category: General Aviation

New Deputy Prime Minister and Minister Infrastructure and Transport Michael McCormack says he is considering proposed changes to the Civil Aviation Act put forward by Dick Smith. McCormack told The Australian on Monday he had met with Smith regarding changes to general aviation regulations. “While I understand Mr Smith’s passion on this matter, my job is

In the week Qantas prepares to launch the first regularly scheduled nonstop flights linking the continents of Australia and Europe, the Northern Territory government is reviving an air race first held when such an undertaking would have been inconceivable. In 1919, the Australian Government challenged the world’s leading aviators to fly from Great Britain to

It seems amiss to bill Saturday’s Red Bull Air Race main event as a tantalising affair for Australia’s Matt Hall following a costly qualifying error, but with the first race day of 2018 looming under the desert sun of Abu Dhabi, that is exactly the case. The former RAAF pilot, who hails from Newcastle, NSW,

Adelaide-based tech company OzRunways has extended their relationship with Australian pilot Matt Hall from the domestic to international scene, joining the Novocastrian as an official sponsor of his Red Bull Air Race World Championship team. OzRunways was founded in 2010 – Hall’s second year in the world’s fastest motorsport series – and in the years