Australian Aviation

On Wings of Waste’s mission to use recycled plastic as a fuel source for aviation Without fuss or fanfare, the single-engined RV-9 homebuilt departed Wollongong, NSW and flew to Tyabb, Victoria on January 12. At face value, there was nothing special about the flight, however, within the fuel tanks and beneath the engine cowling something

An airline pilot gets up close with the F-35 There is no doubt that the star of the recent Australian International Airshow at Avalon was the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II. Its arrival on the Friday had every eye, lens and mobile phone cast skyward while the queue to sit in the full-scale mock-up came

End of an era for the Snowy Hydro SouthCare Rescue Late in the afternoon on April 1 the Canberra-based Snowy Hydro SouthCare Rescue Helicopter Service made its final life-saving flight. The mission, using SouthCare’s blue, white and green Bell 412 ‘classic’ VH-NSC, known affectionately as ‘Charlie’, brought to a close an 18-year career for what

Plan Jericho two years on Two years on from the release of Plan Jericho, the vision embodied in the plan to transform the Royal Australian Air Force remains the same: to develop a future force that is agile and adaptive, truly joint, and capable of fighting and winning in the information age. And the three

Heavy maintenance providers focus on scale As far as heavy maintenance is concerned, size does matter. In a hyper competitive market, airlines are looking to cut costs anywhere they can without threatening the safe carriage of passengers to their destination. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Subscribe to Australian Aviation for unlimited

Premium economy continues to expand When Virgin Atlantic invented premium economy in 1992, the airline went to seatmakers Contour (now Zodiac) and ordered a cut-down, reduced-pitch version of the cradle sleeper seat that British Airways was then using in its Club World business class. Pitching it at 38in, the upward pressure from the new Mid