Australian Aviation

As aviation enters another COVID slumber, Kirsty Ferguson advises aviation professionals to consider what comes next in their careers – now, to take advantage of the reopening I HAVE had the privilege of working with a couple of Olympians as they transitioned from their elite sporting careers to their “What’s next?” As we watched in

Australian Aviation takes on the impossible mission to locate the flag carrier’s retired Queen of the Skies after they headed for undignified burials IN MAY this year, Australian Aviation’s website published a story that become the biggest in our history, attracting a mind-boggling 80,000 views. It involved a TikTok user, Ashley Hall, who obtained footage

Meet the Melbourne man who revolutionised pilot training in the eighties by developing a universal approach to landing aircraft, the Jacobson Flare When I was a boy… David Jacobson was born in Melbourne in 1947 and learned to fly out of Moorabbin Airport from age 17. Even back then, he was dismayed by the widespread

Roby Finlayson shot this Qantas 737-800 on approach over Moreton Bay to Brisbane’s new Runway 19R. The photo was taken in April 2021, from the gantry, on which the state-of-the-art High Intensity Approach Light System, or HIALS, is mounted. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading

Australian Aviation photographer Lenn Bayliss captured the moment a 55-year-old Cavok Air Antonov An-12B visited Wellcamp and Melbourne. UR-CEZ, msn 6344304, departed Kuala Lumpur on 20 February at 11:04pm as flight CVK7080 and landed in Darwin at 7:49am the next day.  On 22 February, it continued to Wellcamp where it stayed for another two days

Veteran Australian Aviation photographer and writer Paul Merrit shares his award-winning snapshots from around the world.