Nancy-Bird arrives home in Sydney
Qantas A380 VH-OQA Nancy-Bird Walton touched down in Sydney on Sunday morning, completing its QF32 flight from Singapore 16 months and $139 million in repairs later after its explosive uncontained engine failure on November 4 2010. As QF32 VH-OQA touched down on Sydney’s Runway 16 Right at about 9.20am on Sunday morning, arriving on time despite
Nancy-Bird tech log handover pictorial report
Qantas Engineering representatives ceremoniously handed over the technical log book for repaired Airbus A380 VH-OQA Nancy-Bird Walton in Singapore on Saturday morning, ahead of the aircraft’s return to Sydney overnight. VH-OQA has undergone extensive repairs in Singapore following the explosive uncontained failure of one of its Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines when operating flight QF32 from
Nancy-Bird ready to return
Qantas Airbus A380 VH-OQA is ready to return to service after an 11 month, $139 million repair program following the explosive uncontained failure of one its engines it experienced soon after taking off from Singapore in November 2010. The A380, named Nancy-Bird Walton, is due to touch down in Sydney at 9.20am on Sunday morning
TAA DC-9 hijack captain dies
Captain Grahame Mackelmann, the Captain of TAA DC-9 VH-TJJ which was involved in an attempted hijacking by an armed passenger on a Coolangatta-Brisbane flight in June 1979, passed away on April 11. “Grahame will be sorely missed by those of us who had the privilege to know and work with him,” says former colleague and
Virgin Australia is to begin codesharing on Singapore Airlines flights to Singapore, China and South Africa from this month, the latest feature of the alliance between the two airlines to be rolled out. From today Virgin Australia can book on codeshared Singapore Airlines flights to Singapore from Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Darwin and Adelaide, and onwards
Go for RAAF Growlers?
Australia is to purchase long-lead items for the “potential conversion of 12 of the RAAF’s F/A-18 Super Hornets to the EA-18G Growler variant”, Minister for Defence Stephen Smith and Minister for Defence Materiel Jason Clare announced today. In a statement the ministers stressed that no Growler acquisition decision has been made yet, but that the
