Taking the positives from failures Later this year Western forces will begin withdrawing from Afghanistan. At 10 years and counting, this has already been America’s longest war; like Vietnam before it, Afghanistan will almost certainly come to be regarded as a disaster. In conjunction with the two US-led invasions of Iraq, the war in Afghanistan

New Zealand leads the way with composite helicopter Building the first all-composite fuselage helicopter in a market far removed from mainstream production and in an industry already besieged by fierce competition and the vagaries of economic influence may seem at odds with convention. But all the more so when the prototype machine made an emergency

QAM preserves a unqiue part of Australian flying history On May 21 F111C A8-129, in its original green and tan camouflage, made its final journey, appropriately at very low altitude on a low loader from Amberley to its new home, the Queensland Air Museum (QAM) at Caloundra airport. Efforts by the QAM to get an

New product, new routes and new efficiency In the love hate relationship between airlines and the 787 there can be no airline that has continued the love affair – albeit strained – than Air New Zealand. There has never been any hostile rhetoric with statements that the airline would make Boeing pay or suggestions of