Australian Aviation

Despite popular demand, Elvis has not returned to Australia for this year’s Erickson Air-Crane tour of Australia. But while there is no overweight, white body-suit, blue-suede-shoe-wearing rock star headlining the show, six Erickson S-64E Air-Cranes are touring Australia as the headline act for the 2014-15 bushfire season. It’s the size of a Kenworth, but it’s

Renton, the home of Boeing narrowbody airliner production, is ramping up to builda staggering 52 737s a month Boeing’s Renton facility has seen it all and is now gearing up for yet another extraordinary chapter for a factory that has produced more commercial jets than all the world’s other aircraft factories combined. The numbers are

The second of only two Boeing 737-700s now in the Virgin Australia fleet, VH-VBZ, has been repainted. The aircraft, first delivered to Virgin Blue in 2005 and named Maliblue, emerged from the Flying Colours paintshop at Townsville Airport on Friday evening wearings its new Virgin Australia colours and bearing the new name Cronulla Beach. This

The ‘retro roo’ remembers a very different Qantas of the 1970s and 1980s, as former Qantas Captain Bill Anderson recalls Qantas recently saw the arrival of a new Boeing 737-800 which is painted in a 1970s era ‘retro’ livery. Timely, as it seems to me there are many loyal Qantas staff, both current and retired,

BAE Systems Australia’s move into commercial aircraft maintenance lands a Tiger by the tail BAE Systems is the third largest defence contractor in the world, and enjoys a particularly strong role in military aircraft sustainment in Australia. In October 2013, the company announced it had been chosen to provide base maintenance services for a commercial

Australian pilot Geoff Hucker is helping Ethiopian orphans to fly higher For most Australians who grew up in the 1980s, Ethiopia was more closely associated with war and famine than vacation, but for Geoff Hucker, the east African country had always been a source of fascination. Inspired as a boy by stories of Solomon and