Australian Aviation

Australia set to acquire three more CH-47F Chinooks The US Department of State has approved the possible sale of three more Boeing CH-47F Chinook helicopters to Australia. The potential Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program deal, which is valued at US$180 million and includes related equipment and support, would take the Australian Army’s ‘Foxtrot’ fleet to

Stats show the changing fortunes of Qantas International Buried within the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics’ latest monthly international airline activity report is a remarkable stat. For the month of November 2015, Qantas flew 10.7 per cent more international passengers into and out of Australia than it did in November 2014. When was

CAC factory worker, Korean War fighter pilot, civil charter pilot and aviation author and historian – Keith Meggs has (almost) done it all Keith Meggs’ house lies under the flightpath of a nearby airport and is crammed –literally –with thousands of publications on aviation. Two stand out. His seven logbooks and his self-penned masterwork, 40

Law says: Consider E-7, G550 and EA-18G as the ‘eyes’, ‘ears’ and ‘teeth’ respectively. The P-8 has elements of all three but with a very maritime focus and that really should remain its focus. If the end result is anything like the Israeli ‘Shavit’ then it should be a fairly passive platform in nature. Effectively

Not the ‘who?’, focus on the ‘why?’ When I was growing up, there were a few basic rules about when to speak and when not to. In an aviation sense, human factors and CRM refined the process further, but even so, one was encouraged to be measured in one’s thoughts and avoid shooting from the

The search for MH370 two years on Two years ago on March 8 2014 MH370 – with 239 passengers and crew aboard – went missing on route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. So far, only one piece of wreckage – a flaperon – has been recovered, while 80,000 sq kms of the ocean floor of