Australian Aviation

The impact of the shooting down of MH17 will continue to reverberate The shooting down of MH17 on July 17 taking 295 lives marks, like 9/11, a paradigm shift in aviation security. Whereas airlines for decades have flown over trouble spots hoping for the best, they now have to expect the worst. This content is

A leading international flight school with a name most will recall from the 1970s will host a pilot training seminar in Sydney on September 27. The free seminar, run by the US-based Pan Am International Flight Academy and flight simulator company Flight Experience, will be held at the National Maritime Museum in Sydney’s Darling Harbour.

The Regional Aviation Association of Australia (RAAA) has announced the six recipients of its 2014 scholarships. RAAA’s Ansett Aviation Training scholarships were awarded to Alexis Herzog from Airline Academy of Australia and Danica Henderson from Australian Airline Pilot Academy. The pair will take an endorsement course on either the Beechcraft Super Kingair B200 or Metroliner

Finding cabin interior space where there was none before In 2014, the economics of airline interiors is all about space – both the set amounts of space that is available for interiors designers to work with, and the way that they utilise that space. Even as seatmakers continue to develop new structures, mechanisms and materials

Virgin Australia has repainted and renamed the Boeing 737-800 which was named Brett’s Jet after Virgin Blue founding chief executive Brett Godfrey. The 737, VH-BZG, was one of the last aircraft in the Virgin Australia fleet still wearing the old Virgin Blue colours, and was repainted by Flying Colours in Townsville over late August-early September. It

 The Australian-led air search for MH370 Twice, within a horrifying four-month period, Malaysia Airlines lost two airliners – one claimed by the roiling currents of post-Soviet geopolitics, and the other, it’s believed, by those of the southern Indian Ocean. Though both aircraft were lost in vastly differing circumstances, physical remains, electronic data and wreckage will