Australian Aviation

SQNLDR Maz Jovanovich and the “best job in the world” Every now and then, an aircraft design comes along that outlasts the working careers of not only its first generation of aircrews and maintainers, but those of their children and even their grandchildren. One such long-lived aviation success-story is the Lockheed P-3 Orion. Developed from

Israel’s long heritage of unmanned aerial vehicles Israel is a pioneer of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) with Israeli-made unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)s used extensively by the Israeli military and by a wide variety of nations, including Australia, the United States, China, Russia and the United Kingdom. As a group, Israeli UAVs have likely seen more

One man’s passion to fly his very own Focke-Wulf Fw 190 As a youngster with an aviator father and a passion for flying, Chris Mayr made scale models of German World War Two aircraft and dreamed of one day owning and flying one in particular – a Focke-Wulf Fw 190. And now he has. A

Flight instructors the forgotten link in the pilot foodchain The looming pilot shortage is not an issue that is just going to fade into the background. As new aircraft arrive and new routes are announced, the inescapable fact is that there is a shortage of crews to keep pace with the expansion. Airlines are busily

Australia’s first electric-powered light sport aircraft takes flight, pointing to an electric future In January this year, an aviation milestone was achieved, as the first Australian-registered electric-powered light-sport aircraft took flight. Lifting off from Jandakot Airport in Western Australia, the Alpha Electro, produced by Slovenia’s Pipistrel, can remain airborne for an hour with an extra

Stand by for Trans-Tasman fireworks later this year as Air New Zealand and Virgin Australia end their seven-year alliance. In reality the break-up isn’t much of a surprise but it will likely spark a new wave of intense competition on routes between the two countries. In an interview earlier this year Air New Zealand chief