HIFiRE flies high!
The joint Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) and US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) HIFiRE hypersonic project achieved another milestone on March 22 with the successful completion of a second flight at more than Mach 5. The flight was conducted at the Woomera Test Range in SA, and saw the small aircraft launched atop
Boeing attacks A350 aid
The day before the final ruling by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on the Airbus subsidies was due to be issued, Boeing has attacked reports that Germany will provide launch assistance to the European manufacturer to finance research and development for the A350. German newspaper Die Welt reported on March 21 that the German government
Airservices awards more scholarships
Airservices Australia and the Australian Women Pilots’ Association (AWPA) have awarded four scholarships to young women to assist with the cost of flying training. The four winners were announced at the AWPA annual general meeting in Ballarat on March 20, and will each receive $6000 to subsidise the cost of obtaining a private or commercial
A160T demonstrates USMC resupply capability
An unmanned Boeing A160T Hummingbird has successfully demonstrated its ability to meet the US Marine Corp’s vertical unmanned resupply capability requirement during a demonstration in Utah on March 9-11. Boeing says the A160T met or exceeded all of the USMC’s requirements, including delivering at least 1250kg of cargo from one simulated forward-operating base to another
Airnorth EMB-120 crashes on takeoff
An Airnorth Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia crashed shortly after taking off from Darwin Airport on March 22, killing the two pilots. The aircraft, VH-ANB MSN 116, took off on a training flight shortly after 10am, before it was seen crashing into bush near RAAF Darwin. Pilots Shane Whitbread and Greg Seymon were they only occupants of
“Fastest man alive”, Robert White dies
Robert White, the first pilot to exceed Mach 4, Mach 5 and Mach 6, and still the fastest pilot to ever fly a powered aircraft, has died at his home in Orlando, Florida, aged 82. In 1961, White, then a USAF test pilot, took the Rockwell X-15 rocket plane beyond the milestone speeds in the
