Australian Aviation

Boeing has delivered its first AH-64D Apache Block III attack helicopter to the US Army, under an initial US$247m contract signed last year covering eight aircraft. The new the AH-64D received enhanced 1500kW T700-701D engines, composite main rotor blades, a new split-torque face gear transmission, the modernised target acquisition detection system/pilot night vision system (MTADS/PNVS),

Boeing has begun delivery of its 747-8 Freighter to Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings as it continues deliveries of its next generation jumbo jet. Atlas Air will wet lease the jets to British Airways World Cargo, Boeing said in a statement. Atlas has ordered nine of the planes. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation

Boeing has submitted a five-year proposal to the US Army to deliver 155 CH-47F Chinook helicopters. The company says the deal would save “hundreds of millions of dollars” over year-to-year deals by allowing Boeing to negotiate longer-term agreements with suppliers and plan its expenditures more effectively. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members.

The troubled F-35 JSF has hit a number of key milestones in recent weeks, giving its supporters more ammunition in their efforts to fight off those who have threatened the program due to budgetary or performance issues. Arguably the biggest recent flight test success was the deployment of F-35B test aircraft BF-2 and BF-4 from

ACO, AvWO and lead-in pilot training Seventy years ago next February, in the stifling heat of a Papuan New Guiniean airfield, the RAAF’s 32 Squadron was formed. Drawn from flights from 6, 23 and 24 Squadrons, the unit was immediately in action, commencing anti submarine patrols on the very day it was stood up. Flying

Thales’s CASIA air traffic management lab For a business devoted to managing risk and the seeming random, it may seem ironic that Thales Australia Air Operations (TAAO) has chosen to develop its world leading Air Traffic Management systems in a former casino. Its gamble, however, on Research and Development into ATM is paying off, not