Not far from where the F-35A will touch down on Friday to make its Australian debut sit a number of forgotten buildings. These hangars in a back corner at Avalon Airport were once hives of activity in the late 1980s and early 1990s as the then Government Aircraft Factory built Australia’s then ‘new’ frontline fighter
The Airbus KC-30A Multi-Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) has achieved final operational capability (FOC) in Royal Australian Air Force service, Chief of Air Force Air Marshal Leo Davies announced at the Avalon Airshow on Thursday. “It is quickly becoming the tanker of choice,” Air Marshal Davies said of the KC-30A. “We are now there where the
Air Affairs Australia and Discovery Air Defence Services (DA) have teamed up to provide three Alpha Jets for Australian Defence Force training. The pair will deliver the three aircraft under Air Affairs’ existing Jet Air Support contract commencing in the third quarter of 2017, Air Affairs said at the Australian International Airshow at Avalon on
Back in 2001, Australia opted to buy the Eurocopter Tiger instead of the US Apache but now Boeing is pitching the latest generation Apache, the AH-64E, as a potential Tiger replacement. Should Australia head down that path, it would tick many boxes – it would be a FMS purchase with aircraft produced in the same
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is at the Avalon Airshow on a mission to demonstrate that the Heron TP is a viable option that should be considered to meet the Australian Defence Force’s requirement for an armed unmanned aircraft. “Give us the chance to compete, to see our capabilities, to compare, to see the benefit that
When everything else has broken or failed, the one thing that absolutely has to work is the escape system. That adage certainly held true for Steven Andrews and Peter Batten (pictured) when they pulled the ejection handle on a PC-9 and Mirage, respectively, as well as the other 7,512 lives that have been saved thanks
