“I wouldn’t fly on a Boeing!” Comments like this are a little dramatic and certainly an over reaction to those of us within the aerospace/airline industry. However, we have heard a number of lay people without prompting express this very sentiment most emphatically in recent weeks. Alerted to this, we did some checking around and

Radical Approach to Sydney Airport Problems as Level of Debate Hots Up: The Supporters of Runway Three group have launched a radical scheme to greatly increase the capacity of Sydney’s beleaguered Kingsford Smith Airport. The plan, publicly launched on February 6, envisages closing the existing east-west (07/25) runway in favour of building a parallel north-south

Mirage the Final Farewell: The last Mirage jet fighter in operational service with the RAAF made its final flight on February 8, from Adelaide to Woomera. The aircraft operated by the RAAF’s Aircraft Research and Development Unit (ARDU), will join 49 other Mirages in storage at Woomera. The long-serving jets have been replaced by the

Shorts for Fokker?: With Northern Ireland’s Short Brothers up for grabs, the company handling the sale on behalf of the UK Government has announced that the original list of 30 bidders will be reduced to six. One interested party is Fokker, which is keeping its options open about whether to buy Shorts alone or with