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RAAF Globemaster makes first flight into Taji
/RAAF C-17 has landed at the Taji Military Complex in Iraq for the first time, with the heavylift aircraft landing there on April 23 during the official visit of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Chief of Defence Force Air Chief Marshal Mark Binskin to Australian service peronnel in Iraq. “We had not planned to use
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/The government gets back into the airports business So the federal government is to go ahead and build Western Sydney Airport, with the bulldozers beginning work at the Badgerys Creek site barely 12 months from now in the second half of next year. That feels quite soon, but of course Badgerys Creek was first selected
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/While the helicopter industry has still a way to go before returning to the boom times of a decade ago, there are still some signs of growth Australia’s helicopter industry continues to fly through some rough air, but that turbulence is showing some signs of abating, suggesting a flightpath through the gloom that has challenged
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/The remarkable resilience of Alan Joyce The new “International Transit Lounge” will feature showers, a wellness suit and an outdoor patio, and will open ahead of London flights commencing next March. qantas Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce’s reaction to a now famous pie-throwing incident at a business breakfast in Perth on May 9 highlights the
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/The Helicopter Aircrew Training System is on track for its first pilot and aircrewman courses from next January The new Helicopter Aircrew Training System (HATS) is nearing take-off, with Australian Defence Force (ADF) students due to enter the Joint Helicopter School in January next year. A fleet of 15 Airbus Helicopters EC135 T2+ helicopters has
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