Australian Aviation

Issue of team isolation is a hot topic One of the questions I always get asked by people, is ‘when will you bring your race plane to Australia?’ The short answer is, I wish I could tell you! As an Aussie team competing in the Red Bull Air Race World Championship, one of the largest

How to make a quick getaway One of the bigger challenges, or lets just call it costs, associated with fl ying your own aircraft is getting to and from your aircraft and the nearest café. You may be fortunate and arrive at an airfi eld with it’s own facilities, perhaps even a hotel! For many

Insights from the world of aviation AIRLINE NEWS Qantas’s regional wing QantasLink claimed top honours for punctuality in 2018. Figures from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) showed QantasLink had 84. 3 per cent of its flights arrive within 15 minutes of schedule in calendar 2018, ahead of Qantas at 80. 9

A380 and Concorde – how the fates conspired At first look, the mighty doubledecker A380 and the sleek delta-wing Aerospatial/BAC Concorde may seem to have very little in common. But as we all know, looks can deceive and these two aircraft – one approaching the end of the (production) line and one consigned to history,

It’s a Knockout But there’s  plenty of life left in this civilian giant   If you had asked anyone standing at the fl ightlines in Toulouse 14 years ago — when the fi rst Airbus A380 took to the skies — whether the then-35-year-old Boeing 747 would outlive the new superjumbo in production, you’d have

50 years on – how the 747 made aviation history There are few sets of numbers that immediately bring to mind a picture, but 747 is one of them, all thanks to Boeing’s iconic aircraft, the original “jumbo jet”, which made its first flight on February 9, 1969. Of all the aircraft ever produced, the