Australian Aviation

A re-analysis of raw data from satellite communications provider Inmarsat has confirmed the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 went down in the southern Indian Ocean after running out of fuel. The analysis of 45 pages of raw data which details ‘handshake’ communications logs between the aircraft and the Inmarsat satellite which is in geosynchronous orbit

Quite a few interesting aircraft are shown in the New Allocations this issue. A new Challenger, BLM, and Global Express, IQR, for Execujet the former having seen service in the US and Argentina, and the latter previously operated in South Africa, the US and Qatar. A Beaver, DHQ, from Canada originally built for the US

AAAA, Air Tractor join forces to recognise innovation AAAA has long held that innovation and adaptation are the keys to both survival and prosperity in the aerial application sector and for that matter, aviation as a whole. Without a perpetual push forward for both continuous improvement and the occasional ‘great leap forward’, the aviation industry

RAAA Convention to reconvene in the Hunter Valley With Qantas and Virgin off the front pages for a while it might just be possible for the rest of the industry to get some air time. Possibly more than any other industry, commercial aviation focuses on safety and operational predictability to a fault. It is a

The centre is typically open to the public every third Sunday of the month. (On the subject of F-111s – a correction to this caption last issue – eagle-eyed readers of course spotted that the F-111 on display at Point Cook was an F-111C model, and not a G model as described. Apologies – Ed.)

Bell 505 to star at Rotortech A full-scale mockup of the newlylaunched Bell 505 Jet Ranger X will be a star exhibit at May’s Rotortech 2014 conference and trade show, organisers have announced. Bell launched the 505 at the Heli-Expo convention at Anaheim in California in February, and a mockup of the new light single