Australian Aviation

Airbus is sponsoring an innovative two-seat electric-powered aircraft at the international Aero-Expo in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Known as ‘eGenius’, the aircraft technology demonstrator was designed by the University of Stuttgart’s Institute of Aircraft Design, with Airbus being the project’s main sponsor. Data collected from ‘eGenius’ will be analysed by an Airbus Future Project team in order

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has released an issues paper seeking public comment on Airservices Australia’s proposed new long term pricing arrangement. Airservices, the monopoly, government owned provider of air traffic control and aviation rescue and fire-fighting (ARFF) services in Australia, is proposing a new long term, five year pricing arrangement, which would

Pilatus Aircraft has reported on a solid financial year in 2010, generating record revenues and operating profits. The Swiss company generated sales of CHF 688m (A$734m) and an operating profit of CHF 88m (A$94m), both figures up over 11 per cent on 2009. Nonetheless, new orders for the year and the order backlog were both

Greg Dunstone, a pioneer of Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) technology, has received the Royal Aeronautical Society’s prestigious Lawrence Hargrave Award for 2011, presented in Canberra on April 12. “Greg Dunstone has led Airservices Australia’s ADS-B initiatives since proposing the first trial in 2000,” the RAeS noted.  “His pioneering work and leadership resulted in the successful

The US Air Force has taken delivery of the second production C-5M Super Galaxy airlifter, as Lockheed Martin progresses with the Reliability Enhancement and Re-Engining Program (RERP). The aircraft, which will now undergo “internal paint restoration” at Stewart Air National Guard Base in New York, is the fifth upgraded C-5M to enter service with the

The Norwegian government has announced plans for an initial buy of four Lockheed Martin F-35 JSFs with which to start pilot training with from 2016. Norway’s Defence Minister Grete Faremo cited “maintaining a satisfactory operational combat aircraft capacity in the transition phase between the F-16 and F-35” as the key reason for the 4.8 billion