Australian Aviation

News briefs from across aviation GE Aviation’s 747 flying testbed with the GE9XTM engine on the wing took off from Victorville in California at about 1040 on March 14. ge aviation AIRLINER NEWS Embraer has officially delivered its first E190-E2 to launch customer Norway-based Wideroe. The ceremony took place at Embraer’s São José dos Campo

A US startup has chosen New Zealand’s Canterbury Plains to flight test its self-flying electric air taxi Somewhere on the Canterbury Plains against a backdrop of the snow-tipped Southern Alps, local farmers got their first glimpses of the future of air taxi travel. Periodically, a strange-looking whisper-quiet vehicle would fly from a private airfield over

Flying the Cessna Grand Caravan EX Performance can mean many things to many aircraft. Fast, slow, short-field, heavy-lifter. Often an aircraft’s role can be ascertained merely by looking at it. In the most obvious case, a flying boat, more subtly, a freighter. Yet, even when the design suggests the suitability of an aeroplane to a

Thinking outside the seat Qantas’s historic Captain Cook 747 lounge is an iconic part of airline history (even if it does look its best in black and white, rather than the more eyewatering contemporary orange…). qantas Virgin Australia’s April Fool’s Day joke about installing an indoor cycling spin class studio on its longhaul aircraft might

AirAsia sets its sights ever higher Tony Fernandes, boss of Malaysia’s AirAsia budget group, isn’t one to miss out on popping up with his trademark red cap at big occasions around the world and when leaders of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) held their annual talkfest in Sydney recently, there he was.

Indigenous-painted Qantas 787 ‘Yam Dreaming’ arrives in Alice Springs Clear skies and Australia’s rugged outback greeted the arrival of Qantas’s fourth Boeing 787- 9, which features a special Indigenous livery inspired by the ‘Yam Dreaming’ artwork of artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye. The aircraft, VH-ZND, departed Boeing’s final assembly line at Everett a little after 2100