Australian Aviation

Boeing has announced the appointment of Jack Jones to become vice president and general manager of the company’s South Carolina facilities. The 31-year Boeing veteran will assume overall responsibility for Boeing South Carolina, where its facilities currently fabricate, assemble and install systems for the aft fuselage sections of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, and joins and

Virgin Blue Group has announced increases to both its fares and international fuel surcharges, due to rising fuel prices, with effect from March 21. “Oil prices are reaching increasingly high levels, with the average price of Singapore Jet Fuel rising by around 50 per cent since September 2010, from US$88 a barrel to US$131”, Virgin

The US military has grounded its entire fleet of F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters, after a dual generator failure and oil leak on test aircraft AF-4 last Friday (March 11). Reuters and DoD Buzz report that the F-35A was completing a flight test at Edwards Air Force base when the mishap occurred, with the

Victoria’s Convair firebomber trial A 12 week lease is giving the Victorian government’s State Aircraft Unit (SAU) a chance to trial two Convair CV580 firebombers. Following the devastating 2009 Black Saturday bushfires, the Victorian government has made a significant investment in trialling large aircraft to contain and control fires, beginning with the 2009-10 fire season’s

Airline incidents in the new media age In 1998 then IATA DG Pierre Jeanniot warned that if the industry did not aggressively address the crash rate then “at a future time when there is twice as much traffic we will have twice as many accidents.” His warning was also in the context that the crash

The Federal Government has signed an inaugural Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on air travel with Belgium. Federal Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Anthony Albanese said both Australian and Belgian airlines will now be able to offer up to seven passenger flights a week to and from Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth, unlimited capacity for all