Australian Aviation

Embraer’s newest executive jet has received type certification from the Brazilian Civil Aviation Authority and first delivery of the Legacy 500 is scheduled for September. The Legacy 500 was certified by Brazil’s regulator on August 12, with certification from the US Federal Aviation Administration expected in “upcoming weeks”, Embraer said in a statement. This content

Air NZ’s 787-9 arrives, A350 nears As Winston Churchill said, never waste a crisis. When you have a crisis that is the opportunity to make changes that are probably very difficult to do in a status quo situation. The people within the organisation were up for change because they knew the organisation had to change,

Airbus’s new big twin is on track for certification and deliveries from the end of the year It’s one year since the Airbus A350 XWB first took to the skies. Now it has over 2,000 flight test hours spread across its fleet of five aircraft. As certifications looms ahead, the A350 is preparing to make

Hawker Pacific is bringing a Bell 429 configured for emergency medical services (EMS) to Australia and New Zealand for a demonstration. In an EMS configuration the 429 can carry two litter or rescue baskets as well as two medical staff and two crew, will be in New Zealand from August 11-21 and in Australia from September 1-19.

The first rule of Flight Club is that you talk about Flight Club Which is better, Qantas or Virgin Australia?” Every reader of Australian Aviation will have been asked that question, either in jest or in seriousness. For most passengers, the “better” airline is one with more legroom, that’s less cramped, with inflight entertainment, better

Putting the LHD and the F-35B together, an engineer’s view There’s a lot of attention being given to the possibility of putting the F-35B variant of the Lightning II on board the RAN’s new Canberra class LHDs. There’s also a lot of discussion, but also some disinformation. Putting jet aircraft on ships is a fairly