Australian Aviation

PILATUS PC-24 Further & Faster There is a new lifesaver making its mark across the vastness of Western Australia. Built in Switzerland and entering Australian service in December, it can be found as high as 45,000ft travelling at speeds of over 400kt. This lifesaver is the Pilatus PC-24, the newest member of the Royal Flying

We are live! What could possibly go wrong? Cast your mind back to a live BBC World News broadcast, now a YouTube sensation. Picture it, a rather serious well-spoken chap (and I use chap deliberately as he was ever so frightfully British). He was speaking about the impeachment of South Korea’s president when his child

Operation Christmas Drop exercise, conducted with US forces, delivering food, clothing and toys to outlying communities in the Marshall Islands. “Extra fuel is useful during forward arming and refuelling point (FARP) operations, where the crew land and offload fuel to another aircraft, vehicle or storage tank,” Commander Air Mobility Group AIRCDRE William Kourelakos said. OEM

Celebrating 50 years of the Australian P-3 When the first Lockheed P-3 Orion took flight on November 25 1959 from Burbank, California, I doubt anyone foresaw that it would become one of the most successful military aircraft to grace the skies. And when the Royal Australian Air Force received its first P-3B Orion, tail number

The evolution of Butterworth How the Suez crisis saw RAAF take the lead in South-East Asia Earlier columns in this series have traced the evolution of the RAAF presence in Malaya/Malaysia and Singapore, from 1948 to 1958, to the permanent deployment to Butterworth of one Canberra and two Sabre squadrons.   This content is available

Turbulence In Paradise During his visit to the colonies in 1861, Rudyard Kipling described New Zealand’s Milford Sound as the eighth Advisor judged it the wonder of the world. A decade ago, Trip Advisor judged it the world’s top travel destination. Visitors to this remote and raindrenched pocket of the world heritage status Fiordland National