Australian Aviation

Boeing has announced its commercial and defence aircraft deliveries for the first quarter of 2011. It delivered a total of 84 737s in the quarter, as well as 13 777s and four 767s. On the military side, the F/A-18E/F and EA-18G led the way with 13 deliveries, while seven new build Chinook helicopters, four F-15s,

Russian carrier UTair has signed a contract for the purchase of 20 ATR 72-500s, in a deal worth US$426 million. UTair, which will fly the aircraft throughout regional Russia and Ukraine, currently operates 14 ATR 42-300s and three ATR 72-200s. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. LoginBecome a MemberTo continue reading the

Threatened with the onslaught of Cyclone Yasi, elements of the RAAF were on hand to assist residents in north Queensland, as four specially equipped aircraft of the Air Lift Group (ALG) evacuated a total of 173 Cairns hospital patients to Brisbane on February 1. It was a night often filled with drama, suspense and fatigue,

Flying the new Cessna Citation CJ4. The recent Australian International Air Show played host to a number of new kids on the block, but few were fresher than the Cessna Citation CJ4 which was on tour in Australia with Cessna’s Australian representative, Aeromil Pacific. Only the third aircraft of its type off the Wichita production

“I love it and the higher the price of fuel goes the better it looks.” While Richard Aboulafia, noted analysts with the Washington DC Teal Group is a great rap for the 747-8I, Boeing has struggled, up till now, to get airlines to think quite in those terms about the latest version of the venerable

JSF’s revised flightplan There’s no doubt the past 12 months has been a tumultuous period for the F-35 JSF. There have been a number of adverse independent cost and schedule estimates, the sacking of a program head, a ‘Nunn-McCurdy’ congressional review, delays in getting aircraft into flight test, and the conduct of a technical baseline