Australia’s Matt Hall has finished a credible fifth in the season opening event of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship in Abu Dhabi, UAE, his best finish in the region since a second place in 2015. Today’s race was won by America’s Mike Goulian, who climbed to the top step of the podium for
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,
Boeing’s 747-8 final assembly line at its Everett facility looks set to keep churning out the iconic aircraft well into the 2020s thanks to a new order from United Parcel Service (UPS) for up to 14 freighters amid “unprecedented demand” in its air freight business. UPS said on Thursday (US time) said the order was
Airbus’s first long range A321LR narrowbody has completed its maiden flight, bringing the aircraft a step closer to perhaps being seen in Australia. The first flight of the A321LR, MSN7877, powered by two CFM Leap-1A engines, took place from Airbus’s Hamburg facility, with the six-person flightcrew testing the aircraft’s flight controls, engines and main systems
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
Boeing says it expects to deliver between 810-815 aircraft in calendar 2018 amid growing passenger demand and rate increases for its 737 narrowbody program, a seven per cent increase on the 763 aircraft deliveries it achieved in 2017. The outlook for the current year was announced on Wednesday (US time), when Boeing released its financial