Australia’s maturing helicopter EMS industry Australia’s helicopter emergency medical service (EMS) industry has undergone some major evolutions and now appears to have reached maturity on a number of levels. Often a part of police air wing or other search and rescue operations, rotary EMS has over the past years become its own field, with a

The Wedgetail enters RAAF service The RAAF formally took delivery of the first two of six Boeing 737 Wedgetail AEW&C aircraft at a ceremony at RAAF Williamtown on May 5. The official handover has seen the two aircraft brought onto the RAAF’s register with 2SQN, a large proportion of the project’s contracted fees paid to

Emirates order a big boost for struggling A380 Airbus’s forthright COO Customers, John Leahy, has confidently predicted he can raise the order backlog for the slow selling A380 by 20 sales by the end of 2010. Speaking to media at the company’s annual Innovation Days briefings at Broughton in north Wales, Leahy said he had

Jetstar has launched a cadet pilot training scheme in partnership with Moorabbin based Oxford Aviation Academy (OAA)Group and CTC Aviation Group of Hamilton, New Zealand, which will train up to 70 pilots in its first year of operation. Jetstar’s Cadet Pilot Training Program will take in candidates not only from Australia and New Zealand but