Austrian low cost carrier Niki Luftfahrt has exercised options it has on two Embraer E-190s, with delivery of the aircraft to take place during the first half of 2011. Niki operates E-190s in a 112-seat configuration alongside a fleet of Airbus A320 Family aircraft in Europe.
The RAAF took ‘initial delivery’ of two Boeing Wedgetail AEW&C aircraft at a ceremony at RAAF Williamtown on November 26. The ceremony was attended by Chief of Air Force AIRMSHL Mark Binskin; the DMO’s AEW&C program manager, AVM Chris Deeble; and Boeing’s AEW&C program vice president Maureen Doherty, as well as members of the RAAF’s
Gulfstream Aerospace’s new flagship G650 widebody ultra long range business jet made its first flight from Savannah, Georgia, on November 25. Flown by experimental test pilot Jake Howard and senior experimental test pilot Tom Horne, the G650 took off from Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport at 1341 local time with flight engineer Bill Osborne on board.
The Williams Foundation unequivocally endorses the government’s decision to place a firm order for 14 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters. This represents strategic thinking of the first order, for which the Rudd government, and indeed its coalition predecessors (who took the decision to join the nine-nation JSF program in 2002), deserve credit. No single defence force-structuring
The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) and the International Business Aviation Council (IBAC) have joined forces to establish an emissions reduction strategy for the business aviation sector. The strategy sets forth three goals for reducing emissions, which are to achieve carbon neutral growth by 2020, improving fuel efficiency an average of two per cent per
Remember November 25, it’s an historic day for Australian military aviation. It is not every day that the Australian government commits to buy a new fighter, but today it did just that in committing to buy 14 Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters – JSFs – for the RAAF. Apart from the 2006 buy of
