Australian Aviation

Delivering on its promises For those who haven’t studied helicopter aerodynamics in detail, it is truly a subject of mystery and intrigue. When it all got too hard for me during my early training, I remember being taught the two most basic laws: Helicopters don’t fly; they are just so ugly, the earth repels them!

Joyce v Borghetti in aviation’s new paradigm Charles Darwin wrote that “it is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. ” He wasn’t thinking about the airline industry, although he may have been influenced by the vagaries of safe balloon flight in the

CAE takes on China Southern WA Flying College One of Australia’s largest flying training organisations is now emerging as a key part of a worldwide training network to meet the growing demand for pilots in the Asian region. Over the past 17 years Perth based China Southern WA Flying College (CSWAFC) has been the starting

Precision navigation comes of age The pursuit of flight safety in commercial aviation is an ongoing task. Airlines and regulators alike continually seek to enhance their safety performance through all manner of rules, systems and burgeoning technology. So what if the opportunity arose to make the critical approach phase up to eight times safer for

Skywest has recorded increases in both its RPT and charter operations during September 2010. Passenger numbers on RPT services increased by 4.91 per cent to 25,195 for the month, resulting in a 6.09 per cent increase in revenue passenger kilometres. Available seat kilometres increased by 3.03 per cent, which saw load factor increase by 1.58

Boeing has recorded a 9.7 per cent increase in deliveries of commercial aircraft during the third quarter of 2010, driven primarily by higher deliveries of 737s. For the three months to September 30, Boeing delivered 124 aircraft, comprised of 100 737NGs, 21 777s and three 767s. That is compared to the 113 deliveries during the