Australian Aviation

COVID-19 is undeniably the biggest upset the aviation sector has ever seen and the Australian government is providing some hefty bail-outs to our airlines, but is it enough to keep the industry afloat?

A commercial airliner full of passengers, shot down during a regional conflict involving one of the world’s most powerful states, with denials from those responsible swiftly contradicted as evidence leaks out from our increasingly interconnected world. The story of Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 is not a new one for aviation. Even more regrettably, it

Hawaiian Airlines leans on new tech to fight off a big challenger For 90 years, Hawaiian Airlines has served the islands from which it takes its name, dotting the Pacific over 3,000km — in aviation terms, 1,700 nautical miles — from the US mainland. The islands’ separation and geographical isolation makes air transport essential for

Integrating a Russian Mi-8 into Australian bushfire operations How do you use disparate, international aircraft volunteered from overseas into a unique operating environment like fighting bushfires in Australia? Offers of help poured in, but one curiosity was Mad Max: a Russian Mil Mi-8 helicopter from Papua New Guinean operator Hevilift, which won a contract to

The end of the jet age is in sight. Within the lifetime of many of the readers of the World of Aviation, passengers will be flying commercially on aircraft powered in ways that are not currently viable: with electric motors, batteries, fuel cells, and certainly other technologies yet to emerge. To start with, though, aviation

Readers who remember aviation in the late 1980s and early 1990s may recall Boeing’s three-market analysis for the 777: the A market for under seven to eight hours of flying, the B market for a bit more than that and the C market for what we’d now call ultra-longhaul at a reduced payload. These eventually