Kangaroo 95 — Orange Incursions Repelled Kangaroo 95, Australia’s largest ever military exercise has been fought and won, with the ADF’s capabilities tested in a range of scenarios across Australia’s top end. The triennial Kangaroo exercise is the ADF’s primary multi service and multinational exercise, and this year’s was the largest ever involving 17,000 ADF

Embraer Emb-145 August saw another step forward in the history of Brazil’s Embraer with the successful first flight and official rollout of the 50 seat EMB-145 regional twinjet. Initial planning for the -145 began in the late eighties when Canadair announced a stretched development of its 601 series Challenger aimed squarely at the commuter and

People Nazarian as its new Chief Financial Officer. Qantas has nominated Sydney businessman Sean Wareing as its third independent director on the board of Air New Zealand. David Gray is Rockwell Australia’s new Managing Director. Vanessa Fanning has resigned as the Department of Transport’s aviation division head to take an appointment with TNT. E-Systems Australia’s

Lockheed Delivers Best Offer for C-130j The RAAF plans to acquire 12 C-130J-30 Hercules to replace 37 Squadron’s 30 year old C-130Es, although at the RAAF’s request the Lockheed Martin proposal also includes incentives for the RAAF to order up to 36 J model Hercules. It is likely that additional Js will be ordered to