Australian Aviation

Government is key to unlocking opportunity Australia has been a partner in the JSF Program since 2002. A significant objective in joining the program was to open up opportunities for local companies in the world’s largest defence program. It’s timely to ask: How much more could have been achieved – and perhaps could still be

Experience, merit and retirement – age and the flightdeck How times have changed. An airline career used to be a job for life, but that can no longer be said. Just as footballers once played out their career with a local club, so too pilots once remained in the ranks of one airline from start

Fleet Air Arm prepares for new capabilities HMAS Albatross near Nowra, NSW, has for more than 65 years been home to the Royal Australian Navy’s aviation group, the Fleet Air Arm (FAA). Formed in 1947 around a nucleus of two British war-surplus aircraft carriers, the FAA has over its lifetime operated a variety of fixed

Extending the capability of Embraer’s popular E-Jets Improving aircraft designs by stretching or upgraded the engines or both can be spectacularly successful or a commercial disaster. Aviation history is littered with both and the most successful are without doubt the Boeing 737 and the DC-8 families. Now Embraer, four years after Bombardier announced the CSeries,

Procurement inconsistencies questioned Both Minister for Defence Materiel Dr Mike Kelly and Opposition spokesperson for Defence Senator David Johnston have claimed vindication from the Australian National Audit Office’s (ANAO) audit of the combined-pass procurement of 10 C-27J Spartan aircraft and associated equipment via Foreign Military Sales (FMS). The C-27J selection was announced in May 2012

Old airports come back to life as FIFO grows A rare event is about to occur – the reopening of a regional airport that used to have an RPT service – the very much-upgraded Miles. Locals enviously noting F100s overflying to The Monument and Trepell, jet ports without towns, could win out of only the