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/The engineering Training Action Group (ETAG) comprising of Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers’ Association and Aviation Maintenance Repair and Overhaul Business Association and the Regional Aviation Association of Australia has urged CASA to support an urgent review and redevelopment of CASR Part 66 and the Manual Of Standards. This regulatory framework is one of the two
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/Alliance Airlines begins selling tickets for its RPT services in regional Queensland Alliance Airlines chief executive Lee Schofield says the start of regular public transport (RPT) operations in regional Queensland is part of the company’s ongoing efforts to expand its business beyond the mining sector. It was announced in May Alliance would offer RPT flights
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/Updated forecasts on aircraft deliveries by both major jet manufacturers at the Paris Air Show didn’t only mean a multi-billion Dollar boost to Boeing and Airbus sales figures, they underscored a growing challenge facing the industry over coming years: training enough new pilots to fly them. But is Australia doing enough to grab a bigger
Read moreFourth to fifth
/Enter the F-35A Lightning II Following the earlier RAAF fighter transitions from Avon-Sabre to Mirage IIIO, then to F/A-18A (March and April, 2017 AA), the RAAF–as evidenced by the deployment of its first two F-35A fighters across the Pacific for the 2017 Avalon Airshow–has already commenced its transition from fourth generation to fifth generation. Like
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/Equity and diversity in aviation Normally the appointment of a chief executive at what is best described as a mid-tier carrier in terms of size would not warrant widespread international coverage. However, the naming of Farzaneh Sharafbafi as the new chief executive of Iran Air was reported around the world, from La Repubblica in Italy
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/Wasp and Black Hornet mini UASs to provide Army’s troops with eyes in the skies With no air force of its own, Islamic State has been outfitting small unmanned aircraft with small bombs, not very accurate but occasionally inflicting casualties and death on the Iraqi military and Kurdish forces. Their video footage – there is
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