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/Mustang ready to fly Peter Gill’s CAC CA-18 Mustang VH-URZ/A68-199 is almost ready to fly. The aircraft, located at Tyabb, Victoria had its first engine run on November 28 and a taxi check the next day. It may well be that the aircraft has completed its first flight by the time these words are read.
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/Australian companies stand to benefit from an effort to acquire ‘soldier-proof’ unmanned systems for the Australian Army Australian industry involvement has been put at the heart of a plan to acquire a small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) to be used by Australian Army soldiers that is expected to be man-portable or carried within a team.
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/Tigerair Australia to grow internationally as a “narrowbody operation” Appoints new chief pilot and director of flight operations Virgin Australia is sticking with the Tigerair Australia brand and plans to expand the low-cost carrier’s (LCC) footprint internationally with destinations in narrowbody range over the next three years. Tigerair began international operations in March, with flights
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/Just how far will Qantas go? There’s a nice symmetry that in the issue we explore Qantas’s “game-changing” announcement it will fly nonstop from Perth to London with the Boeing 787-9 from March 2018 that we also look at how its very first Boeing 747-400, which on its delivery flight to Australia in August 1989
Read moreQantas plans “game-changing” Perth-London 787-9 services in March 2018
/Jessta says: Great if you can afford the pointy end or even possibly premium economy, but 3-3-3 in the 787 is shocking even on shorter longhaul routes, never lone 17 hours. If they were really hoping to make this work then it would be a Business / Premium Economy fit out only for this flight
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/Focus and perspective for busy times The last 12 months have seen the sort of agricultural seasons that rarely come along. Widespread continuous rainfall, huge plantings of crops and a very full soil moisture profile have led to one of the longest and busiest periods ag operators have seen for some time. As a result,
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