Lockheed Martin’s F-35 System Development and Demonstration program accrued more than the required test flights and test points in 2011, the company has announced. The 2011 flight testing plan called for the accumulation of 872 flights and 6622 test points. The SSD program flew 972 flights and tallied 7823 test points across all three variants
BAE Systems Australia will produce titanium parts for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter at a new facility in the northern suburbs of Adelaide, the company has announced. The facility, a collaborative arrangement between BAE, Rosebank Engineering and the South Australian government, will house Australia’s “biggest advanced aerospace components manufacturing and treatment operation,” BAE says. BAE
The Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry has called for a third airport to be built near Melbourne. “It would be a good idea if we had two domestic airports either side of Melbourne,” chamber spokesman Chris James told ABC News. “We’ve already got one at Avalon; we will need one on the south-east as
Virgin Australia is bringing daily Airbus A330 services to Melbourne for the first time, with daily flights to Sydney and twice daily flights to Perth commencing from mid-May. Tickets for the new services went on sale today, with economy fares starting from $99 to Sydney and $195 to Perth, Virgin said. The new flights come
CASA is requiring immediate inspections of Beechcraft Bonanza and Debonair aircraft after frayed flight control cables were discovered on a pair of planes. In airworthiness directives issued this weekend, CASA ordered owners and operators of the four-seat aircraft to replace any damaged forward elevator control cables before further flight. The directives allow only a single
Qantas has launched its fourth Airbus A380 destination with four times weekly service from Sydney to Hong Kong. The inaugural A380 operated QF127 departed Sydney yesterday at 11:45am and arrived in Hong Kong at 5:50pm local time. The service will operate Thursdays through Sundays and will return the same day as QF128. Capacity for the
