An innovative Australian company that designs engines for unmanned aerial vehicles is carving out a successful niche in the global aviation market. Perth-based Orbital Corporation has won a third contract from a US-based customer to develop and manufacture a new unique Heavy Fuel Engine for a specific small unmanned aircraft system (SUAS) application. The new
AirAsia X is increasing flights to twice-daily flights from Sydney, Melbourne and Perth to Kuala Lumpur, in a move that will see it become Australia’s fourth largest foreign carrier by the end of 2013. Following the completion of a new bilateral agreement between Australia and Malaysia and the addition of more A330-300s to the airline’s
Following the successful completion of Exercise Talisman Saber 2013, nearly 1,000 Australian Army and United States Marine Corps personnel are preparing to take part in Exercise Koolendong 2013, which will be conducted at the Bradshaw Field Training Area south-west of Darwin. Starting on August 28 and concluding on September 7, Exercise Koolendong will involve 150
To little fanfare, Boeing has rolled out the stretched 787-9 variant of its 787 Dreamliner, with the aircraft moving from the factory at the company’s Everett plant to the flightline, in preparation for a first flight “later this [northern] summer”. Boeing says the 787-9 program is “on track”, with the second and third -9 airframes
The final F-111 strike aircraft to be displayed at historical museums has begun its retirement journey to the United States. Aircraft A8-130 has been gifted to the Pacific Aviation Museum in Hawaii in recognition of the close ties between Australia and America through a long period of coalition operations. Chief of Air Force, Air Marshal
Airservices has commissioned its new $16.9 million control tower at Adelaide Airport, in what Adeialde Airport has described as “a generational change in air traffic control, moving from a paper-based system to electronic”. At 44 metres high, the new tower, which is more than twice the height of the former building built in 1983, mirrors
