Australian Aviation

Wellcamp Airport’s International Women’s Day event hoped to foster a love of aviation in a new generation of young women. Hannah Dowling reports Around the globe, 8 March each year represents International Women’s Day. The day commemorates the work that women throughout history have put in to achieve an equal standing with men in socio-economical,

NASA’s very first helicopter to fly on Mars In April of this year, NASA made history, by proving that it is possible to create and sustain powered, controlled flight on Mars, despite its atmosphere being nearly 100 times thinner than that of Earth, with just one-third of the same gravitational pull. Ingenuity was sent to

Checking in with Avalon Airport

Podcast regular Christian “Boo” Boucousis is Australian Aviation’s chief pilot and a man who spent his early career flying F/A-18 Hornets. Here, he talks about his determination to make it and how he coped when illness forced him to step away

1917 – Curtiss Autoplane One of the earliest attempts on record of creating a ‘flyable car’ was by Glenn Curtiss in 1917, with the invention of the Curtiss Autoplane. Built of aluminium, the Autoplane had detachable wings, propeller, and tail. It also had four wheels and a cabin akin to any other motorcar of the

Australian Aviation talks to Bell about the impeding release of the most-anticipated commercial helicopter in a generation.