Australian Aviation

Flying on NASA’s 46-year old DC-8 For so many aviation tragics it is a childhood encounter with a magnificent aircraft that lights a flame that never goes out. My encounter was a flight on an Air New Zealand Douglas DC-8 between Sydney and Christchurch in 1968 that sparked a passion for the aircraft and the

Behind Matt Hall’s smile is the unmistakable determination needed to reach the top Eight hundredths of a second – it sounds like a camera shutter speed. It was actually the miniscule margin that prevented Matt Hall from winning the opening Red Bull Air Race (RBAR) for 2015. It’s a blink, a hair’s breadth and it

One of the most comprehensive aviation sector improvement and reform programs ever undertaken in the Pacific is underway The World Bank-funded Pacific Aviation Investment Program (PAIP) is helping Pacific Island nations to upgrade and maintain infrastructure assets, personnel capacity building and undertake a range of reviews that support policy, masterplanning, and air services agreements that

The RNZAF’s future airlift options Among the many capabilities discussed in New Zealand’s Defence White Paper 2010 is the NZDF’s future airlift requirement – currently fulfilled by two converted Boeing 757s and an ageing fleet of five Lockheed C-130Hs – the oldest of which have now been in service for half a century. The White

Airbus Helicopters’ new-generation seven-tonne class H175 is selling well after entering service in December last year. But the European manufacturer has even higher hopes for its twin, a Chinese-built version currently heading towards certification in Tianjin, the port city south-east of Beijing. TOM BALLANTYNE reports. Laurence Barron, China chairman of European aircraft manufacturer Airbus, is

Auckland Airport’s rise and rise: the 30-year plan Already the second largest airport for international flights in Australasia, Auckland Airport is due to expand to 24 million passengers in the next 10 years and 40 million in the next 30. The airport’s fourteen and a half million annual passengers are already three times the population