Australian Aviation

Airports 10, 20 or even 30 years from now will look very different to the facilities we see across Australia and New Zealand today. Radically different ground transportation, seamless self-service passenger experience, virtual digital control towers and airports that serve as destinations in themselves are all on the horizon. The ongoing boom in travel demand

Qantas is instantly recognised around the world for its red flying kangaroo. However, from mid-October the airline was due to turn pink in support of the National Breast Cancer Foundation. Fly Pink is the brainchild of QantasLink Captain Susan McHaffie. Established in 2015, FlyPink sees Qantas Group pilots adopting pink epaulettes, as well as cabin

Making the call Understanding a fuel Mayday Even before the morning coffee had been brewed, social media and website forums were abuzz about an unfolding drama at Sydney Airport. United Airlines flight 839 inbound from Los Angeles had declared a fuel Mayday and the city was on high alert. Emergency services were being scrambled from

Up-arming the ADF’s ground-based air defence capabilities Not since the Bristol Bloodhound system of the 1960s has the Australian Defence Force (ADF) possessed a land-based anti-aircraft surface-to-air missile (SAM) system with a beyond-visual-range (BVR) defence capability. The RAAF’s ramjet and rocket-powered Bloodhound entered service in 1961 and, at 8m long and weighing in at 2.5

The push is on to introduce digital air traffic tower technology at airports both in Australia and across the Tasman. Airservices Australia is Digital tower technology, which Airservices calls DAS, for digital aerodrome services, can provide an effective replacement or contingency backup to existing conventional air traffic control towers while delivering cost savings. This content

News briefs from across aviation DEFENCE NEWS The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has taken delivery of its ninth F-35A Joint Strike Fighter and the first to be taken on strength by its first operational flying unit to fly the jet, No 3 Squadron. F-35A A35-009 was delivered to Luke Air Force Base, Arizona where