Asian Aerospace News Update Singapore again played host to a highly successful Asian Aerospace expo and airshow between February 22 and 27. Rapidly shaping up as the third major airshow in the world, Singapore has done well to capture the nitch market that it has since it’s first show a decade ago. Following is a

Team Players In a national emergency the nation’s Defence force is almost always called into action. After all, far more Australians have died this past century through the ravages of flood, fire and tempest than have been killed on mainland soil by enemy action. The recent NSW bushfires highlighted the great value that a properly

A Better Way to Fight the Fires? January’s devastating bushfires throughout NSW, and in particular in and around Sydney, have left a lot of people contemplating the most effective means of combating future outbreaks of what must surely be this nation’s most damaging onslaught by mother nature. Despite whatever comes out in terms of a

 Additional a300s for Qantas? Qantas management is examining a proposal from Airbus Industrie that they lease additional A300B4 twinjets. Logic for the proposal stems from the fact that Qantas’s domestic services are suffering from a lack of a proper first class cabin on the airline’s Boeing 767s. AA has heard that it is not uncommon