Delivering on its promises For those who haven’t studied helicopter aerodynamics in detail, it is truly a subject of mystery and intrigue. When it all got too hard for me during my early training, I remember being taught the two most basic laws: Helicopters don’t fly; they are just so ugly, the earth repels them!

Joyce v Borghetti in aviation’s new paradigm Charles Darwin wrote that “it is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. ” He wasn’t thinking about the airline industry, although he may have been influenced by the vagaries of safe balloon flight in the

Precision navigation comes of age The pursuit of flight safety in commercial aviation is an ongoing task. Airlines and regulators alike continually seek to enhance their safety performance through all manner of rules, systems and burgeoning technology. So what if the opportunity arose to make the critical approach phase up to eight times safer for

USAF wing prepares for ‘integrated’ JSF training The RAAF’s first cadre of F-35A pilots and maintainers are scheduled to be trained at one of two Integrated Training Centres (ITCs) currently being established in the US. The first of these, at Eglin AFB in Florida, is in the process of populating its training ranks in preparation