There have been 595 days since Matt Hall stood on the top step of the podium in the Red Bull Air Race World Championship series, but a victory at the inaugural French event in Cannes on the French Riveria has broken that drought in an emotional victory for the Australian. A two-time runner up in the
For more than a decade, a team of aviation professionals with strong airline and training backgrounds has been attempting to establish the Australia Asia Flight Training School at Glen Innes Airport, a small airfield in the NSW Northern Tablelands. Consultant Neil Hansford was part of this team. The little-used airport, located within new Minister for
New Deputy Prime Minister and Minister Infrastructure and Transport Michael McCormack says he is considering proposed changes to the Civil Aviation Act put forward by Dick Smith. McCormack told The Australian on Monday he had met with Smith regarding changes to general aviation regulations. “While I understand Mr Smith’s passion on this matter, my job is
In the week Qantas prepares to launch the first regularly scheduled nonstop flights linking the continents of Australia and Europe, the Northern Territory government is reviving an air race first held when such an undertaking would have been inconceivable. In 1919, the Australian Government challenged the world’s leading aviators to fly from Great Britain to
Australia’s Matt Hall has finished a credible fifth in the season opening event of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship in Abu Dhabi, UAE, his best finish in the region since a second place in 2015. Today’s race was won by America’s Mike Goulian, who climbed to the top step of the podium for
It seems amiss to bill Saturday’s Red Bull Air Race main event as a tantalising affair for Australia’s Matt Hall following a costly qualifying error, but with the first race day of 2018 looming under the desert sun of Abu Dhabi, that is exactly the case. The former RAAF pilot, who hails from Newcastle, NSW,
