The Air 5418 Phase 1 project to integrate the Lockheed Martin AGM-154 JASSM missile with the RAAF’s fleet of F/A-18A/B Hornets has been added to the government’s growing list of Projects of Concern. The JASSM project is now running more than 12 months late due to ongoing integration issues with the missile to the Hornet’s
Qantas has returned the Airbus A380 to service three weeks after the QF32 catastrophic engine failure, with flight QF31 from Sydney to London via Singapore departing on late Saturday afternoon. “It’s great that we can reintroduce the aircraft,” Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said at Sydney Airport before the flight’s departure. “We are 100 per cent
A Jetstar A330 first officer has been sacked by the airline for “multiple breaches” of its code of conduct after he wrote an article for The Age newspaper criticising Jetstar’s plans to establish a Singapore base using Australian registered aircraft. In the article, published in mid November, Joseph Eakins, who is also a union representative
With the first of Qantas’s A380s to take off on Saturday on a revenue flight for the first time since their grounding after the QF32 incident, it’s worth considering the cost that the airline has had to bear with having its flagships out of service. For the three weeks the entire fleet was grounded, possibly
Boeing says it is developing “minor” design changes to the 787’s power distribution panels and updates to the aircraft’s power distribution software in the wake of the electrical fire on 787 development aircraft ZA002 earlier this month which has led to the suspension of the flight test program. “We have successfully simulated key aspects of
Perth Airport has announced revised plans to spend $500 million over the next three years on terminal developments as it strives to meet traffic growth fuelled by Western Australia’s mining boom. Key aspects of the plan are an expansion of the existing international terminal with the incorporation of a new shared domestic pier to be
