Lockheed Martin says the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) test fleet has now achieved its goal of 394 flights in 2010, with the 400th flight milestone passed on December 13. “We exceeded our 394 flight goal and expect to meet out overall test point goal this year by reaching ahead and working 2011 test points,”
CASA’s long awaited revised maintenance suite of Civil Aviation Safety Regulations (CASRs) have been signed into law, and will take effect from June 27 2011. The new CASRs cover continuing airworthiness requirements (Part 42), approved maintenance organisations (Part 145), maintenance personnel licensing (Part 66) and maintenance training organisations (Part 147). “The outcome-based approach of the
Airbus’s latest Global Market Forecast (GMF) predicts a more bullish recovery in demand for new aircraft, projecting an additional 900 aircraft deliveries over the next two decades compared to its 2009 GMF. The 2010 GMF predicts 4.8 per cent annual growth in airliner deliveries, compared to the 4.7 per cent rate of growth forecast a
Boeing’s Phantom Ray UCAV demonstrator was taken aloft on NASA’s Shuttle Carrier Aircraft modified Boeing 747-100 for a 50 minute test flight from St Louis’s Lambert Field on December 13. The compatibility flight was undertaken as a prelude to the SCA’s planned carriage of the Phantom Ray to the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards
Qantas has announced it has signed a formal agreement to purchase Perth based fly-in/fly-out resource contract charter operator Network Aviation, which is to become a fully owned Qantas subsidiary. “We have reached agreement with the owners of Network Aviation to purchase the business. It presents strong growth opportunities and we will immediately look at significantly
Strategic Airlines has announced plans to operate new Brisbane-Denpasar nonstop Airbus A330 services from March 19. Strategic plans to operate twice weekly flights on the route, departing Brisbane on Wednesdays and Saturdays, operated by its A330-200, which is configured in a two class 30 business, 243 economy class configuration. Strategic already flies between Brisbane and
