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The memory module of the flight data recorder of the doomed Air France Flight 447 (AF447) has been found by search teams in the Atlantic Ocean, giving hope investigators will be able to determine what caused the 2009 crash of the Airbus A330-200. According to reports the memory module was recovered by the Ile de

Airbus has received its first Messier-Dowty manufactured A350 XWB (A350-900) main landing gear set at its test facility in Filton, UK. Airbus will install both the main landing gear and recently delivered nose landing gear sets in a landing gear systems test-rig at Filton, paving the way for integration testing planned towards the end of

An ADF Heron Remotely Piloted Aircraft Detachment (HRPAD) has set a unit record for monthly flying hours, while deployed on operations to Kandahar, Afghanistan, in April. The fourth rotation (ROT 4) of personnel from HRPAD took out the honours, after clocking 475 hours while flying the aircraft on various intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions.

Airservices Australia has begun site preparation work for a temporary radar facility at Machans Beach, north of Cairns, in order to maintain current levels of radar coverage in the region while a more permanent radar facility is upgraded. The site, which is already owned by Airservices, was chosen to host the temporary radar because of

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The second Sydney airport debate is back in the news, as the joint federal-NSW state government study into sites for a new airport progresses. Clearly the capacity constraints at Sydney Airport are now becoming an issue. The 80 movements an hour restriction has meant slots have been at a premium at peak times for some