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

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

A319 Receives First Airline Order: The Airbus A319 short fuselage version of the A320 twinjet airliner has received its first airline order with French internal carrier Air Inter ordering nine examples and placing options on a further nine. (Leasing company ILFC ordered six A319s in late 1992). The A319 has high equipment and systems commonality