Rolls-Royce has expressed “regret” at the disruption caused to its Trent 900 engine customers in the wake of the Qantas A380 QF32 uncontained engine failure on November 4, as further details continued to emerge as to the extent of the issue. “We regret the disruption we have caused,” Rolls-Royce chief executive Sir John Rose said in
Airservices Australia has welcomed 18 new aviation rescue firefighters into service at a graduation ceremony at Melbourne Airport. The new firefighters have recently completed a 10 week course at Airservices Learning Academy in Melbourne as well as ground training in Sydney. The training focused fighting aircraft and structural fires, aviation rescue techniques and dealing with
Boeing says that the fire on board one of its 787 Dreamliner test aircraft started in its P100 power panel and spread into one of the aircraft’s insulation blankets which self-extinguished the fire once the fault in the power panel was cleared. “Damage to the ZA002 P100 panel is significant,” Boeing said in its latest
Rolls-Royce has found a fix to its troubled Trent 900 engine in the wake of last week’s uncontained failure of one of the engines on a Qantas A380, Airbus chief operating officer – customers, John Leahy, previewed media in Sydney on November 12. “Rolls knows they’ve found the solution to what caused the problem,” Leahy,
A US Presidential commission set up to study ways of reducing that country’s massive deficit has identified several potential targets within the defence budget, including the F-35B STOVL version of the JSF. The commission has suggested that cancelling the F-35B would save US$17.6 billion, while also slowing the acquisition of early build F-35A and F-35C
The Indonesian Ministry of Defence has selected the Embraer Super Tucano to replace the TNI-AU’s Rockwell OV-10 Bronco light attack aircraft in service. The order for eight aircraft also includes ground support equipment and an integrated logistics package, and is the first for the Super Tucano in the Asia Pacific region. Deliveries are scheduled to
