The air force chiefs of Australia, New Zealand and the UK were given a demonstration flight in the Airbus Military A400M at the recent Royal International Air Tattoo in the UK. Pictured are ACM Sir Andrew Pulford, Royal Air Force; AVM Peter Stockwell, RNZAF; and AIRMSHL Geoff Brown, RAAF standing on the open ramp together
An F-35 carrier variant refuelled from a USAF KC-135 for the first time on August 20. With the completion of this test, the F-35C joins the A and B models in proving that all three variants of the F-35 can be refuelled from a common tanker platform, despite using different methods. Earlier this month Strike Fighter
Following the successful completion of Exercise Talisman Saber 2013, nearly 1,000 Australian Army and United States Marine Corps personnel are preparing to take part in Exercise Koolendong 2013, which will be conducted at the Bradshaw Field Training Area south-west of Darwin. Starting on August 28 and concluding on September 7, Exercise Koolendong will involve 150
A documentary to be aired on the Seven Network is being produced on ‘Wallaby Airlines’ – the RAAF’s former Caribou fleet. Sydney-based television producer Linda Woods has tracked down many people involved from all five decades of Wallaby Airlines “to tell the story of the aircraft and the people who flew her”. Woods has discovered
The STOVL F-35B variant of the Joint Strike Fighter has made its first night landings at sea during critical Development Test Phase Two (DT-II) testing of the aircraft from the USS Wasp. The first night landings took place on August 14, with US Marine Corps test pilot Lt Col Jimi Clift at the controls. “It
Flight testing of the MQ-4C Triton has been ramped up, with Northrop Grumman and the US Navy undertaking the aircraft’s fourth flight in an 11-hour program to test 250 system parameters. Software development is said to be proceeding well, with the Triton’s active electronically scanned array radar having flown 25 flights onboard a Gulfstream. The
