Cathay Pacific has announced it is adding a sixth weekly Hong Kong-Adelaide flight from October. The new flight will commence from October 28, with a split schedule seeing early afternoon departures from Adelaide on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays and evening departures on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, all operated by Airbus A330-300s. The additional flight will
Celebrations are underway across the United Kingdom to commemorate the centenary of the formation of the Royal Air Force, the world’s first independent air force. The RAF was formed on April 1 1918 with the merger of the British Army’s Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service. In our 100th year, we will commemorate
As Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner begins its second decade, the promises that this first composite airliner will fly farther, cheaper and with less fuel burn than previous generations have been clearly demonstrated. 630 aircraft are currently in service with 45 airlines on every continent, with Boeing citing 218 million passengers over 2.9 billion revenue miles during
It seems apt that thanks to the first non-stop scheduled flight between Australia and the UK we are all taking stock of the technological leap in passenger aviation over the past 70 years. Shift that focus to just a decade after the first true powered flights around 1903 and we are talking not a leap
United States Air Force B-52H Stratofortress bombers have arrived in Darwin for exercises with the RAAF and Army. Up to three B-52s will be based at Darwin over the coming days – “early April” according to a Department of Defence statement – for exercises with RAAF F/A-18A Hornets, 4 Squadron PC-9A(F)s and Army and Air
Today’s ‘Throwback Thursday’ feature from a past edition of Australian Aviation is this June 2013 article that looks at the options that never were to replace the RAAF’s fighter force. It is now history that, as a result of delays to the RAAF’s AIR 6000 New Air Combat Capability (NACC) project brought on by development
