Category: Defence

Rolls-Royce has demonstrated fuel savings of more than 13 per cent after assembly and ground testing of the first enhanced T56 engines for a WP-3D Orion ‘Hurricane Hunter’ belonging to the US National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The ‘Series 3.5’ upgrade of the venerable T56 has been designed to not only reduce fuel consumption but

The founding commanding officer of the RAAF’s Roulettes display team, SQNLDR (ret) Philip Dunn died in Canberra on February 17, aged 79 . SQNLDR Dunn was the Roulettes’ first commanding officer after the team was established and flew its first display at Point Cook in December 1970, and had previously flown with the RAF’s renowned Red Arrows

Northrop Grumman has successfully flown a second MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter at the US Navy’s Point Mugu test facility in California. The aircraft joins the first example which first flew last October and has since completed 41 test flights totally 66 hours. “The addition of the second MQ-8C means we can begin testing on

Chief of Air Force AIRMSHL Geoff Brown and Minister for Defence Senator David Johnston have formally welcomed home more than 100 RAAF personnel who had been deployed to Multi National Base – Tarin Kot (MNB-TK) in Afghanistan. The formal ceremony at RAAF Base Amberley on February 14 follows the closure of MNB-TK in December, and