The RAAF has deployed seven F/A-18 ’classic’ Hornets and an E-7 Wedgetail AEW&C to Las Vegas for Exercise Red Flag 14-1. Led by OC 81WG GPCAPT Robert Chipman, the deployment is the first major exercise of 2014 for the RAAF and will comprise an intense two-week campaign of day and night missions against real target
Virgin Australia has announced it will add an additional four flights per week between Bundaberg and Brisbane and an extra eight flights per week between Moranbah and Brisbane. An airline statement says the new services will be operated by 68-seat ATR-72 turboprops. The new services come after a period of several months where the airline
The Australian Airline Pilot Academy (AAPA) has announced that it has received approval from the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) as an approved flight training organisation to conduct integrated airline transport pilot licence (ATPL) training for UAE-based airlines. The AAPA is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Regional Express (Rex) and is located
An Airbus A350 test aircraft has completed a week-long cold weather trial at Iqaluit in Canada. The trial saw MSN3 subjected to temperatures of -28°C. After a cold soak period, the aircraft’s APU and engines were started, its avionics and other systems behaviour verified, and low speed taxi and RTO tests conducted. The test comes
The UK MoD has awarded several contracts to AgustaWestland totalling £760m (A$1.24bn) for the maintenance, conversion and upgrade of its Apache AH1 attack helicopters and Merlin transport helicopters. The Apache force Integrated Operational Support (IOS) contract will see AW provide support and maintenance services to the UK’s Apache fleet from April 1 2014 to March
Boeing has painted a 747-8F in the colours of the Seattle Seahawks NFL team which is playing in Super Bowl XLVIII against the Denver Broncos on February 2. The aircraft is owned by Boeing and is currently being used as part of the flight test program, and has been specially painted in a white fuselage
