Airlines are adding extra flights out of north Queensland and easing restrictions on changing existing bookings in the wake of the approach of Cyclone Yasi. Qantas has announced it is putting on two additional flights out of Cairns and Townsville this evening, with Boeing 737s to operate QF1343, departing Cairns at 1835 and arriving in
The last Lockheed Martin F-35B development aircraft made its maiden flight on January 28, taking off from Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base. The STOVL jet, BF-5, has been assigned to developmental flight testing, and will ferry to NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, later this year, where it will join four other F-35Bs and
Author of the recently released history of the F-111 in Australian service From Controversy to Cutting Edge, Air Commodore Mark Lax retired, has been awarded the Order of Australia medal. Announced in the Australia Day honours list, Lax’s OAM is “For service to the community through the research, documentation and recording of Australia’s military history.”
Boeing has received a US$1.6 billion contract for low rate initial production (LRIP) of the P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft. To date three P-8 test aircraft have flown, with the remaining three in various stages of final fitout and final assembly. P-8 initial operating capability is planned for 2013, with the US Navy expected to
Two Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Seahawk helicopters will be redeployed to Victoria today to work in support of the ADF’s Victorian Flood Response. The two Seahawks will relocate from RAAF Base Amberley, where they have been supporting Operation Queensland Flood Assist. It is expected the helicopters will assist in the movement of emergency services personnel
Boeing has announced it completed full scale static testing for the P-8A Poseidon’s airframe on January 7, confirming the airframe’s structural integrity. The series of trials, which began in May 2009, saw 154 different tests conducted on ‘S1’, the program’s full-scale static ground test vehicle, in which it sustained loads equal to or greater than