Australian Aviation

Vietnamese carriers back ambition with big deals Amidst all the hoopla in Hanoi last month as US President Donald Trump continue his love affair with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un there was another more than happy figure. Boeing chief executive Kevin McAllister was thoroughly enjoying a quick visit to Vietnam to witness the signing of a

Warbirds, classic aircraft, museum and airshow news The Big One – Avalon The big event for this issue is coverage of the Australian International Airshow 2019 held by Airshows Downunder at Avalon Airport, Victoria. The airshow is the biggest and arguably the best held in Australia and attracts both airshow acts from overseas as well

Smart appearance and good attiude mean business It was while I was closing off an aircraft retract endorsement that a young fellow came up to the aircraft as I waited for my student to dip the tanks. The young guy would have been about 19 years old and wore the pilot shirt of a flying

Gone but not forgotten, the original speed machine It was supposed to be the first example of the aircraft of the future, jetting across the world at twice the speed of sound, straddling 41 kilometres every minute, cutting the effective size of the world in half. Fifty years ago, on March 2 1969, the first

Countdown to a new lease on life for fading satellites Would you abandon a fully functioning Rolls Royce or Ferrari on the roadside after it ran out of fuel? No, well that’s pretty much what happens when a satellite costing several hundred million dollars exhausts its onboard fuel. Even though systems may still be fully

Quest Kodiak: born and bred for the backcountry In aircraft design, beauty is more than skin deep. While some airframes are particularly aesthetically pleasing, many hide their strengths beneath aerodynamic fairings or engine cowlings and only on closer inspection is their true purpose revealed. The Quest Kodiak is a classic case study of this fact.