Australian Aviation

Eye in the Sky GA black box born out of heartbreak It comes as no surprise to Louisa ‘Choppy’ Patterson that preliminary investigations have been unable to fathom why a De Havilland Beaver floatplane was off course and crashed into the Hawkesbury River north of Sydney, killing all six on board on New Year’s Eve.

News briefs from across aviation AIRLINES Qatar Airways will lift capacity on its Doha-Perth service by 44 per cent from May 1 when it upgauges its existing daily flight to the Airbus A380 from the Boeing 777-300ER currently serving the route. – This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Subscribe to Australian Aviation

A new hope or a false dawn for the Airbus A380? Airbus bills its A380 as “the passengers’ favourite”. That’s the message on Airbus’s “I fly A380” marketing website devoted to the world’s largest passenger aircraft, which among other things features a wall of social media posts from scores of happy travellers. This content is

Boeing’s 787-10 and the 787 at 10 As Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner begins its second decade, the promises that this first composite airliner will fly farther, cheaper and with less fuel burn than previous generations have been clearly demonstrated. 630 aircraft are currently in service with 45 airlines on every continent, with Boeing citing 218 million

New hope or false dawn for the A380? Are we, finally, in the grips of a pilot shortage? Given that the federal government has just added pilots to its new skilled worker visa there’s some evidence that we are. I was surprised – although perhaps in this era of eternal outrage, I shouldn’t have been

Australia will get its third federal minister responsible for aviation matters in two years after Barnaby Joyce’s decision to resign as Nationals leader and move to the back bench. Joyce told reporters in Armidale on Friday he would officially step down as leader of the Nationals, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Transport