The Red Bull Air Race will return to Perth on the weekend of April 17-18 2010, featuring Australian pilot Matt Hall. As in previous years, the race will be run over the Swan River, with a race airport set up at Langley Park, adjacent to the Air Race course. Organisers say that the ticketed area
A team of 20 pilots and support crew are preparing to ‘fly’ a Boeing 747-400 simulator around the world in November to raise funds for the Royal Flying Doctor Service South Eastern Section. The World Flight Australia team will takeoff on their virtual flight from Sydney on Monday November 2 and will visit 44 cities
Cessna CEO Jack Pelton has told the NBAA Convention in Orlando, Florida, that the company is seeing some optimistic signs for the business aviation market, while also announcing increased performance figures for the Citation CJ4 and a new flight planning tool. “I’m far from ready to call a turnaround, but we do continue to see
Italian manufacturer Tecnam and Austrian company Airborne Technologies GmbH have teamed up to offer a surveillance variant of the twin engine P2600 as the Tecnam MMA (Multi Mission Aircraft). In MMA configuration, the aircraft is able to carry a payload of 360kg, including electro-optical sensors, tactical HF radio and uplink and downlink systems as well
FlightSafety and Hawker Beechcraft have teamed up to offer MxPro training courses at FlightSafety’s new Maintenance Training Center at Wichita, Kansas, from November 9. The basic MxPro course will be taught by both HBC and FlightSafety instructors and incorporates two weeks of classroom and one week of hands-on instruction. It utilises a variety of methods
Airbus announced on October 19 that it has delivered its 10th A318 Elite business jet, which so far has accounted for nearly a quarter of the orders for members of the Airbus Corporate Jet Family. The A318 Elite was launched in November 2005, with the aircraft entering service in 2007. Want to see more stories