Australian Aviation

This issue, a RAAF Growler flies over Alaska and a paradrop at the Shoalwater Bay Training Area.

The quickly constructible, movable, and cost-effective aircraft revetments are open-air structures intended to shield parked aircraft from discovery, blast, and fragmentation damage.

Black Hawk helicopters are replacing Australia’s MRH-90 Taipan helicopters following the crash of an MRH-90 in Queensland during Exercise Talisman Sabre on 28 July and the subsequent grounding of the aircraft.

Sichuan Airlines flight 3U3883 from Chengdu touched down in Sydney on Monday on board an A330-300. With its return, nine airlines including Qantas will offer direct services between Sydney and mainland China, and it is estimated Sydney Airport’s China capacity will be 86 per cent recovered in November.

The overhaul will include new computed tomography (CT) security screening systems in line with federal standards, a mezzanine level for more direct access to security screening, a state-of-the-art baggage system with an entirely new baggage hall, and upgrades to self check-in systems.

In May 2011, Alan Joyce was diagnosed with prostate cancer. In this excerpt from his book Alan Joyce & Qantas: The Trials and Transformation of an Australian Icon, aviation veteran Peter Harbison reveals what the former CEO learned from his brush with ‘the big C’