Australian Aviation took out four of the six categories at the National Aviation Press Club’s Aviation Journalist of the Year awards on Friday night, with the main prize of Aviation Journalist of the Year awarded to the Australian Financial Review’s Andrew Cleary. Winners of this year’s awards were: Aviation Journalist of the Year – Andrew Cleary, Australian Financial
Airbus A330 gains weight
Airbus is offering A330 customers an increased maximum take-off weight (MTOW) option to extend range and payload, which the manufacturer says will open up more nonstop routes between Asia and Europe. The A330-300’s MTOW will be increased from the current 235 tonnes to 242 tonnes, enabling range to be extended by 500nm through the activation
Qantas becomes launch customer for Airbus iPad flight bag
Qantas has become a launch customer for Airbus’s iPad cockpit applications. The electronic flight bag (EFB) will be used aboard all Airbus aircraft in the Qantas fleet. The system will enable flight crew to consolidate paper manuals into electronic form and to compute aircraft performance calculations. Qantas and Airbus have been collaborating on EFB design
C-130H retired from service
Thirty-four years of operational service have come to end for the C-130H, with the retirement of the aircraft from active service at a formal ceremony at RAAF Base Richmond on November 30. The aircraft have played an invaluable role since 1978 supporting defence personal on operation, humanitarian airlifts and missions as varied as airdropping hay
Last Orion welcomed home from Middle East
The last RAAF AP-3C Orion on operational duty in the Middle East area of operations has been welcomed home to Australia. Orions from 92 Wing based at RAAF Edinburgh were first deployed in 2003 to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support to forces in the Middle East, including Iraq, the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan. More
Child Flight’s loss is CareFlight’s gain on NSW NETS contract
Telstra Child Flight has lost out to CareFlight for a four and a half year NSW government contract to fly medical teams from the newborn and paediatric emergency transport service (NETS) in Sydney. From January 1, the 24-hour service to transfer medical teams and patients from anywhere in NSW to leading hospitals in Sydney, Newcastle
