iscover“It’s a good day, but we’ve still got some way to go,” AEW&C program head AVM Chris Deeble told me at the occasion of the ‘initial handover’ of the first two Wedgetail AEW&C aircraft to the RAAF this morning, but the relief in his demeanour was clear. More than 40 months late and in the
The Williams Foundation unequivocally endorses the government’s decision to place a firm order for 14 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters. This represents strategic thinking of the first order, for which the Rudd government, and indeed its coalition predecessors (who took the decision to join the nine-nation JSF program in 2002), deserve credit. No single defence force-structuring
Remember November 25, it’s an historic day for Australian military aviation. It is not every day that the Australian government commits to buy a new fighter, but today it did just that in committing to buy 14 Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters – JSFs – for the RAAF. Apart from the 2006 buy of
10 Years Ago Fokker has modified one of the original F28s, PH-JHG, as an avionics testbed for the Fokker 100. The 80 hour flight test programme began on September 3. The Lockheed C-5B began flight testing on September 10 with a three hour sortie from Dobbins AFB. The air base is located across the field
Qantas-Usair Codeshare: Qantas and USAir have concluded a new codesharing arrangement which will see up to seven daily flights between Los Angeles and San Francisco operating under Qantas flight codes. Qantas terminated direct flights between Australia and San Francisco on March 27 and will now concentrate solely upon services to Los Angeles. The USAir codeshare
Australia and New Zealand are again working together at the coalface of yet another international hotspot. Our highly rated air traffic control and logistics management capabilities are making life in Somalia just that little bit saner. Mogadishu, Somalia – Our Helping Hand Bounded by the ravages of war torn Mogadishu and the tranquillity of the
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UPRT Australia- Transforming Aviation’s Greatest Risk into Its Greatest Asset
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