Australian Aviation

An RAAF 11SQN AP-3C Orion based in the Middle East was damaged on April 8 after a flare became hung up within its countermeasures dispenser system (CMDS). The aircraft recovered safely to its base at Al Minhad Air Base in the UAE and no crew members were injured, but the incident has been subject to

The lengthy white paper fails on two critical ticking time bombs – selecting the second Sydney airport site, and the 80 movements per hour cap at Kingsford Smith Airport. Both will combine to severely limit growth to the point of constricting passenger uplift, as has been long pointed out by airlines and tourism organisations. Given

EADS North America has announced its intention to bid for the USAF’s KC-X tanker replacement program as the prime contractor with its A330 MRTT based KC-45, although it stresses that it hasn’t given up looking for US partners for its bid. Previously partnered with Northrop Grumman and more recently reported to have unsuccessfully explored a

Listen to industry – it makes sense It appears that the risks of ignoring industry warnings and experience have now been writ large by the debacle of the home insulation program – to Ministers, bureaucrats and perhaps even political staffers alike. When industry warnings – which were plainly put and fairly obvious to most –

The online Defense Daily has reported that Bell-Boeing is reportedly considering offering the V-22 Osprey as a contender for the VXX presidential helicopter competition to replace the current fleet of VH-3 and VH-60 aircraft. The report says a company source said that the partnership is “preparing a response to the RFI request with a VV-22

Embraer has announced that the first metal cut for the prototype Legacy 500 executive jet was made on April 19 at the company’s Sao Jose dos Campos headquarters. This first component is part of the forward fuselage, to which the radome, radar, and glide slope antenna will be attached, and was milled from a plate