Australian Aviation

Qantas’s pioneering Queenstown operations In its 90 years of aviation, QANTAS has been at the forefront of numerous technological advances. From the dawn of the jet age and the Boeing 707 to the certification of the Future Air Navigation System (FANS) was in 1995. Today the airline is once again at the cutting edge with

The first F-15Cs to be upgraded with the AN/APG-63(V)3 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar were deployed to Kadena AFB on the Japanese island of Okinawa in late October. The aircraft are the first of 27 USAF and 18 Air National Guard F-15C/Ds currently under contract to receive the upgrade. Longer term plans call for

Qantas’s future flightpath At the press conference in July 2009 to announce his appointment Qantas CEO Alan Joyce’s joked to the media that hopefully the only difference the staff and travelling public would notice between him and Geoff Dixon was his Irish accent. The statement was more to appease the shareholders and financial analysts that

Celebrating 90 years of the Qantas story As one of the oldest carriers in the world, Qantas has been influential in shaping the industry, while for most Australians it has also been influential in shaping a nation and its identity. Since its establishment in November 1920, initially in Winton, the airline has survived numerous challenges

Qantas CEO Alan Joyce For all of Qantas’s 90 year history, the airline industry has been a fickle one. The Qantas of today would be completely unrecognisable to Hudson Fysh and Paul McGinness as the company they started in outback Queensland in November 1920, but one thing they have shared with Qantas’s current management under

Boeing and Korean Aerospace (KAI) have signed an agreement that will see KAI design, develop and build the conformal weapons bays (CWB) for the F-15SE Silent Eagle. The CWBs will feature two bays on each side for the internal carriage of air-to-air missiles and JDAM class bombs, as well as additional fuel storage. The CWBs,