Australian Aviation

South Australia’s regional airline Expanding South Australian operator Air South calls itself “Adelaide’s largest air charter company’’. The boast is based on the local ownership of the aviation group rather than the breadth of its operations or the capacity of its aircraft. Rivals such as Alliance, with five Fokker 50s based at Adelaide Airport, is

Aerial ag begining to pick up in some regions While other sectors of the Australian aviation industry are grappling with the fallout of the global recession, those in the aerial ag sector are is looking forward to a return to better times. Summer rains across Queensland and northern New South Wales have raised hopes that

Stealth and jet power for the Predator General Atomics recently unveiled its much anticipated jet powered Predator C UAV after a series of successful test flights of the first prototype aircraft from its Grey Butte facility near Palmdale in southern California. The aircraft, which has a long and deep fuselage, a forward set engine intake

Riding the waves of challenging times Profitable, with recent traffic growth nearing 20 per cent, consistently the US’s best airline for on-time performance, well regarded for its customer service, and ranked number one in the annual Airline Quality Rating for 2008 for US carriers, Hawaiian Airlines, like the islands it calls home, stands out as

Boeing’s 787 nears first flight Boeing’s 787 is rapidly, finally approaching its long awaited first flight – a much anticipated event which will start an aggressive flight test campaign aimed at achieving certification and first deliveries in the first quarter of next year. In April, 21 months after 787 ZA001 was first presented to the

Few surprises for defence aviation The federal government has released its long awaited 2009 Defence White Paper to provide strategic direction to the ADF for the next 20 years. But apart from the previously leaked increase in submarine numbers from six to 12 sometime in the 2020s, there were few surprises to be found in