Australian Aviation

From its new purpose-built Aeromedical Crewing Excellence (ACE) Training Centre at Bankstown Airport, Toll Helicopters is using high fidelity simulation and virtual reality training devices to best prepare its crews and NSW Ambulance paramedics and doctors to save lives across southern NSW and the ACT for the next decade and beyond. On January 10, in

Schiebel Camcopter S-100 wins Navy VTOL UAS deal The Department of Defence has awarded Austria’s Schiebel Group a contract to supply its Camcopter S-100 to meet the Royal Australian Navy’s interim vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial system (UAS) requirement. Signed in late December, the contract fulfils a request for tender (RFT) for Navy

Air Force’s information age is touching down I shouldn’t have been if I had thought about, but I was quite surprised to see fuselage sections for no fewer than six RAAF F-35s on the production line at Northrop Grumman’s factory in Palmdale, California during a visit there in late January. For over two years now

A big year ahead for the AAA and its members With the first two months of 2017 already behind us, there is no doubt that this will be another incredibly busy and eventful year for the airport industry, and indeed aviation more broadly. One of 2017’s hottest topics is the development of the Western Sydney

Are these the drones the RAAF will be looking for? Could an unmanned combat aircraft (or UCAV) provide the RAAF with the long range strike capability it lost with the retirement of the F-111? UCAVs certainly offer that promise, and Defence’s own acquisition roadmap, the Integrated Investment Program, points to that being a possibility when

Rather a large New Allocations section this issue as it covers two months instead of the usual one. Five new types are shown with by far the most interesting being the Historical Aircraft Preservation Society’s (HARS) Convair Samaritan TAA. During WWII Convair played a leading role in wartime production of the Liberator, Catalina, Vengeance and