DAHER-SOCATA has handed over the first TBM 850 turborprop featuring a Garmin G1000 glass cockpit to an Australian customer. The 2010 model TBM 850 was delivered on March 1 to Capstone Financial Services, which decided to purchase the aircraft after meeting with representatives at the 2009 Avalon Airshow. As with all TBMs produced from 2008
A new bulletin released by the ATSB shows that unauthorised and unnecessary low level flying has resulted in the deaths of at least 12 people over the past 10 years. The bulletin, which is aimed at educating the flying community about the hazards of unauthorised low level flying, presents a number of case studies of
The University of Queensland will lead a $14 million international consortium aimed at developing scramjet access-to-space systems capable of flying at speeds up to Mach 8. Chief investigator and project director Professor Russell Boyce of UQ said the project would answer key scientific and technological questions and build an industry-ready talent pool for a future
Gulfstream Aerospace’s second G650 made its first flight from the company’s facilities at Savannah, Georgia, on February 25. The second test aircraft, known as T2, took off from Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport at 12:50pm, with senior experimental test pilots Gary Freeman and Scott Buethe at the controls. The aircraft flew for 2 hours and 33
The Mount Isa based North Queensland Helicopter Rescue Service (NQ Rescue) has secured approval from the Queensland government to be included in the state’s aeromedical retrieval network to provide medical and rescue services to the state’s greater northwest. The February 24 approval comes after more than a year of trying negotiations between NQ Rescue and the
CASA has reportedly suspended the pilot’s licence of Dominic James, the Pel-Air pilot who successfully ditched an IAI Westwind into the ocean off Norfolk Island after the aircraft ran low on fuel whilst on an air ambulance flight late last year. According to The Australian newspaper, James’s licence has been suspended by CASA as part