iscoverThe final F-111 strike aircraft to be displayed at historical museums has begun its retirement journey to the United States. Aircraft A8-130 has been gifted to the Pacific Aviation Museum in Hawaii in recognition of the close ties between Australia and America through a long period of coalition operations. This content is available exclusively to
A documentary to be aired on the Seven Network is being produced on ‘Wallaby Airlines’ – the RAAF’s former Caribou fleet. Sydney-based television producer Linda Woods has tracked down many people involved from all five decades of Wallaby Airlines “to tell the story of the aircraft and the people who flew her”. This content is
The STOVL F-35B variant of the Joint Strike Fighter has made its first night landings at sea during critical Development Test Phase Two (DT-II) testing of the aircraft from the USS Wasp. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this article, please login.
Flight testing of the MQ-4C Triton has been ramped up, with Northrop Grumman and the US Navy undertaking the aircraft’s fourth flight in an 11-hour program to test 250 system parameters. Software development is said to be proceeding well, with the Triton’s active electronically scanned array radar having flown 25 flights onboard a Gulfstream. The
India has launched a 37,500t indigenously-built aircraft carrier – the INS Vikrant. The ship, which will have a length of 260m and a width of 60m, will now be fitted out at the Cochin shipyards ahead of planned sea trials in 2016. The Vikrant is expected to be commissioned in 2018. At the launch of
As customer deliveries of the A400M get underway, Airbus Military continues the aircraft’s development program. A renewed phase of unpaved runway trials is being undertaken at a test site Zaragoza, Spain. Meanwhile the first production A400M for the Turkish Air Force (TAF) has made its maiden flight. The aircraft took off on August 9 for
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