Australian Aviation

Pilatus PC-21 – 21 by name, 21st (Century) by nature Thousands of feet below the sharply pointed nose, Lake Lucerne whirls wildly as our PC-21 spins earthward. The altimeter is unwinding at a prodigious rate, and we’re already below the summits of many of the Alps. As the nose flicks round for a sixth time

Five years of Air New Zealand’s viral inflight safety videos Just five years ago, it would have seemed incomprehensible to have airline safety videos featuring Hollywood stars – let alone filmmakers, adventurers, swimsuit models and comedy legends. But that’s just what Air New Zealand has done with its 10 quirky, unusual and viral safety videos,

Both the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder of crashed Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501 have been recovered from the bottom of the Java Sea and sent to investigators in Jakarta for analysis. Search and rescue divers from Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) located the cockpit voice recorder on Tuesday, about 20 metres

The date was August 17 1989. Qantas’s first Boeing 747-400, VH-OJA, swept into Sydney through dark rain clouds and, at 2:20 pm touched down on a damp Runway 16, becoming the first commercial aircraft to fly nonstop from London to Australia, breaking a distance barrier that seemed unbreakable for years… and hasn’t been repeated since.

Qantas retires the Boeing 767 A favourite with crews and passengers and a stalwart of everyhaul, the Boeing 767 revolutionised Qantas: it was, in essence, the 787 of its time. A remarkable career spanning 29 years, 5 months, 24 days, over a distance equivalent to 2,438 return trips to the moon, will end at 1820

Indonesian officials have located the fuselage and flight recorders of crashed Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501, according to media reports. News agency Agence France-Presse quoted an Indonesian transport ministry spokesperson saying: “The navy divers in Jadayat state boat have succeeded in finding a very important instrument, the black box of AirAsia QZ8501”. This content is available