Airbus Defence and Space has demonstrated automatic air-to-air refuelling contacts from a tanker’s refuelling boom without the input of the aircraft’s boom operator. An A310 Multi Role Tanker Transport company development aircraft performed six automatic contacts with a Portuguese air force F-16 during a flight off the Portuguese coast in March, Airbus announced on May 9. The
Alliance Airlines adds new routes in Queensland as Virgin prepares to close Brisbane ATR base
Alliance Airlines will begin regular public transport (RPT) flights from Brisbane to Bundaberg, Gladstone, Moranbah and Port Macquarie from July that will be sold as Virgin Australia codeshare services in what is a significant expansion of its operations. Brisbane-based Alliance is also adding wet-lease flying for Virgin Australia on three more routes – Brisbane to Cloncurry, Mt Isa
Pie thrown in face of @Qantas chief Alan Joyce while in Perth. https://t.co/IOrUGlTbg8 #ausbiz #7News pic.twitter.com/XichTGnL5i — 7NEWS Sydney (@7NewsSydney) May 9, 2017 Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce says Tuesday’s incident where he was hit in the face with a pie has “reinvigorated” him to keep speaking out about social and community issues. While addressing a
Jetstar has resumed direct flights between Australia and Vietnam for the first time in five years. Flight JQ63, operated with Boeing 787-8 VH-VKH took off from Melbourne Tullamarine a little after 1545 on Wednesday bound for Ho Chi Minh City. The Qantas-owned low-cost carrier (LCC) will operate three flights a week from Melbourne and four
Defence will spend $6.6 billion on its Top 30 major acquisitions programs in 2017-18, budget papers show. Of that total some $1.1 billion (over 17 per cent) will be spent on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, as acquisition of the RAAF’s next fighter begins to ramp up considerably. The acquisition of 72 F-35As under Project
BUDGET 2017 – F-35 flying hours increase
We don’t actually have any F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft based in Australia yet and won’t until the end of next year. But already our two aircraft in the US, part of the international training unit, are accruing substantial flying hours, 500 in 2016-17 and 752 scheduled for 2017-18, the Budget Papers for 2017-18 show.
