Australian Aviation

Gear for Australian aviators Good sunglasses are as critical for a pilot as all the other flight kit that gets squeezed into a flight bag. Operating at altitude means the environmental effects on the pilot are exaggerated, including exposure to UV light with UV increasing by approximately five per cent per 1,000ft. To ensure these

Windy conditions met the pilots of the Red Bull Air Race for their first practice session in the track at this year’s race in Chiba, Japan on Friday, with Australia’s Matt Hall putting together a time good enough for fourth. Importantly for the team, Hall was one of two pilots to have a completely penalty

From Perth-London nonstop to Project Sunrise, Qantas is crossing its final frontiers When Qantas Flight 9 touched down in London at the end of its historic nonstop flight from Perth a little after 5am local time on Sunday March 25, the remarkable had been made to seem routine. For the first time, Australia and the

The US Army is studying future requirements for the AH-64 Apache which will take it beyond its current AH-64E Guardian configuration and may see it in service well beyond 2040. Three of the major changes being studied for the ‘Future Apache’ are new engines in the 3,000shp class, the addition of a propulsor in place

In support of human factors expert Ben Cook’s feature article in the June issue of Australian Aviation, we have made available the following supporting documents:

Warbirds, classic aircraft, museum and airshow news Yak Bent at Wanaka The spectators got more than they bargained for at the start of the end of March Easter airshow event at Wanaka, New Zealand, when Yak-3M, ZK-YYY, collided with a cherry picker parked too close to the runway. The aircraft was landing on the grass