The World of Aviation

Air New Zealand is paying out a 6.5c (NZD) dividend after pre-tax underlying earnings rose by 20 per cent to NZ$216 million in the first half of the airline’s 2015 financial year, despite statutory net profit after tax dropping by 6 per cent to NZ$133 million. A significant part of the reduced profit was NZ$14 million in losses

Joint Strike Fighter Program Executive Officer Lieutenant-General Christopher Bogdan says the JSF program continues to make “good, slow and steady progress” towards a number of key milestones. Speaking at the Avalon International Airshow, LtGen Bogdan says the program continues to hold to its 2010/11 re-baselined schedule, and that since that time, no milestones have shifted

Bright ideas and hard work have paid off for the six winners of the latest Aerospace Australia Innovation Awards, presented at the Avalon Airshow this week. The winning entries include a company that has revolutionised the making of advanced carbon fibre deposits and a small software house’s world-leading development of an electronic flight planning system.

The RAAF’s fleet of eight King Air 350 air combat officer (ACO) training aircraft, operated by 32 Squadron at RAAF Base East Sale, Victoria, recently chalked up 50,000 flying hours in service. Supplied and supported by Hawker Pacific, the fleet has been operational since 2003, providing the airborne platform for air combat officer and Royal

Avalon 2015 crowds are being treated to seeing a real, live, operational Global Hawk in the flesh. But what’s involved in flying the world’s largest UAV halfway across the Pacific? “A lot,” answers Major Devon Fitts, chief planner for UAVs with the USAF’s PACAF in Hawaii. Following an official request, planning for Global Hawk’s debut

Regional charter operator Pelican Airlines has confirmed plans to launch regular public transport (RPT) flights between Canberra and Newcastle from late April using BAE Jetstream 32 aircraft. Pelican chief executive Paul Graham says the airline is working with the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) on varying its AOC, which only covers charter flights, to include