Australian Aviation

Emirates’ Flight Training Academy aims to fill the pilot gap Pilots are, as we all know, a hot commodity. The global airline industry will need around 804,000 new civil aviation pilots in commercial and business aviation and for civil helicopters over the next 20 years. The forecast from Boeing’s 2019 Pilot and Technician Outlook is

Australia’s Airpower Teaming System UAV program is on target To the uninitiated, the concept of an unmanned aircraft leveraging artificial intelligence to execute missions assigned by airborne controllers might sound like science fiction. But as technology for the next-generation of fighter jets continues to become science fact, the question of how to provide reliable, secure

How learning to fly taught me to chill out FU, stated the weather chart in bold, dashing hopes of going flying. No, not the abbreviation that might initially spring to mind, but the official aviation weather designation for smoke — from the French, fumée. This smoke was from the Australian bushfires, travelling some 2,000km across

A photo with the US President or British Prime Minister is rare. But not as uncommon as being photographed next to Chinese President Xi Jinping, especially if you don’t happen to be a senior member of his administration or foreign head of state. Chen Feng has such a photo. Chen is the co-founder and chairman

Congratulations to Boeing Commercial Airplanes for — after a day’s weather delay on top of over a year’s programme delays — conducting a successful first flight of its 777X, the re-engined large twinjet on which the airframer is pinning many of its future hopes. The die seems cast for the 777-9 (though perhaps not the

Like many times throughout history, the Baltics are once again becoming a struggle between local and foreign influence. But now, it’s for the airspace above the region. airBaltic is fending off the much more powerful foreign low-cost carriers in the skies above Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — and it’s doing it with technology, including growing